We have read with great interest the study on “Reducing the stigma of mental health disorders with a focus on low- and middle-income countries”. This study states that mental health disorders are a growing public health challenge and affect mostly low and middle income countries (Javed et al., 2021). In Latin America, social inequalities could increase during the COVID − 19 pandemic and consequently, people’s mental health (Angulo, 2020). There is little information about the psychological impact of COVID − 19 in the world and even less in Latin America. Therefore, it is important to know studies carried out about it (Alonzo et al., 2021). Mental health disorders, such as anxiety and depression, have increased during the pandemic (Wang et al., 2020, Vitagliano et al., 2021). Depression is considered the most prevalent mental health disorder in the population. However, it is mor...

By early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed the world, with the origin being the Chinese city of Wuhan. By March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The dire consequences of this disease were reflected in a historic global recession, and in the health field, SARS-CoV-2 had wreaked havoc, especially in the elderly, due to worse manifestations and higher mortality rates. As a result, most countries were able to curb the spread of the virus by imposing mandatory measures such as not leaving their homes and very strict timetables. Among the measures considered was the closure of educational institutions, including universities. At that time, there was a paradigm shift in the way educators had to change the way they taught classes by making use of various online platforms. Online, distance and continuing education learning became a panacea for this u...

Se buscó determinar la relación entre el funcionamiento familiar e ideación suicida en estudiantes de secundaria de instituciones educativas estatales de Villa El Salvador-Perú. El estudio fue de enfoque cuantitativo, diseño no experimental y de tipo correlacional. La muestra estuvo constituida por 225 estudiantes mujeres y 213 estudiantes varones, de 12 a 17 años. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron la Escala Apgar Familiar y la Escala de ideación suicida (SS-I). Los resultados mostraron que predominó el nivel de disfunción familiar leve con un porcentaje de 34.0%, mientras predominó en ideación suicida el nivel medio el 40,6%; además, se encontró relación significativa entre el funcionamiento familiar e ideación suicida (p=.000), y relación estadísticamente significativa entre los niveles de funcionamiento familiar con cada una de las dimensiones de ideación suicida co...

Currently, the entrepreneurship boom is on the rise, education centers from elementary to higher education are betting on providing an entrepreneurial education. The purpose of this article is: To recognize the development of social entrepreneurship competencies from the four pillars of education, adding a fifth pillar which “knows how to be an entrepreneur". In addition, it is achieved: to recognize the transforming mission of social entrepreneurship competencies within the educational field, to identify the challenges faced by educational systems and how school entrepreneurship is adapted, to compare successful experiences of different countries in entrepreneurship, to analyze the importance of entrepreneurial education from the four pillars as a basis for the construction of the fifth pillar "Learning to undertake" and to differentiate the roles of the educational community. Consequ...

“Objective: Through this work, a study on the integrity of the human being and the fractionation of public procurement has been carried out. Methods: As part of the study, the authors reviewed scientific works on the subject. Results: After analyzing the contracting law 30225, its regulations and other aspects that are part of the contractual procedure, certain factors have been determined that intervene in the actions of the agents in charge of public contracting, such as: i) normative disparity; ii) incapacity of those in charge of the selection processes; and iii) acts of corruption, which put at risk the denaturalization of the norms, generating the splitting of a contract. Conclusions: The splitting of a contracting procedure corresponds more to a subjective decision where the official or servant in charge of the contracting process has the power to discern the good from the bad. ...

“Investing in children's well-being and supporting high-quality pre-school education is a significant component of its promotion (ECE). All children have the right to participate. ECE teachers' thoughts about children's participation were examined to see if they were linked to children's perceptions of their participation. On the other hand, current studies focus on a single categorization method with lower overall accuracy. The findings of this study provided the basis for the development of an ensemble machine learning (ML) approach for measuring the participation of children with learning disabilities in educational situations that were specifically developed for them. Visual and auditory data are collected and analyzed to determine whether or not the youngster is engaged during the robot-child interaction in this manner. It is proposed that an ensemble ML technique (Enhanced Deep N...

ICT in the educational context can be seen as information transmitting resources that link the teacher and the student in the improvement of teaching-learning adapted to the needs and characteristics of each subject. From this perspective, we seek to describe the state of Iberoamerican scientific production on the inclusion of ICT in the educational discipline in the period 2010 to 2020, based on a retrospective descriptive analysis of publications collected in journals indexed in Scopus. A total of n=1976 contributions were collected. It was found that production increased by 8.51%. Spain is the Iberoamerican country that contributes with the highest scientific production, authors with Iberoamerican affiliation usually publish through conference articles, highlighting ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. In front of an analysis of maturity of knowledge we are facing a develop...

“Banking institutions in Latin America are the target of increasingly sophisticated and advanced cyber-attacks and threats, which increase every year and leave substantial economic losses, due to the high level of global interconnection and digitization of their operations. The objective of this work is to design a model to guarantee information security in a Central Bank in Latin America using Blockchain technology. Exploratory research, observation and inductive and deductive methods are used to propose Blockchain solutions in a Central Bank. The results are a model for secure transactions in Blockchain, Smart Contract functions and a data management process. It was concluded that the security model for a central bank provides high level of information management and storage of transactions in a secure and immutable way. “

Objective:The aim of the study was to compare emotional intelligence in Peruvian university students from public and private universities.Theoretical framework: In higher education, emotionally intelligent students have the ability to interact appropriately with others, achieve good academic results, and reach personal and professional goals.Method: The methodology was descriptive-comparative, the sample consisted of 838 university students of both sexes from public (471) and private (364) universities belonging to the coast, highlands and jungle regions of Peru. A sociodemographic form created for the study and the emotional intelligence scale (TMMS-24) were used as measurement instruments.Results and conclusion:The results showed that university students over 30 years of age, women, those from the highlands and those who worked had high levels of emotional intelligence.Implications of ...

The result that is presented is expressed from a bibliographic review of works published during the last two years 2020-2022 and, through which it was possible to verify the relationships that are established between the work of the Academic Directors, before the latent challenge and visible that is the crossroads of Internet addictions, by university students, increased in the stage already overcome of social isolation imposed by Covid 19 but, with emphasis on the achievement of learning at this high educational level, its risks and consequent decreases in the attacks that occur as a result of procrastination. All associated with the addictive phenomenon, in a projection of health promotion that the current, humanistic, modern and developing university should not give up in any way, being precisely in this direction an unavoidable pillar of social development, which lies precisely in th...

“This article presents a literature review of Intelligent Systems applications in Tourism in different parts of the world. The review focuses on the most relevant methods in free and paid databases, in English and Spanish. Most of the works deal with methodologies based on artificial intelligence, such as expert systems, fuzzy logic, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, genetic algorithms. In the review, several characteristics of the systems have been taken into account, such as, knowledge base, actors in the operation of the system, types of tourists, usefulness or not in space and time. According to the review it was found that most of the researches are deterministic models, the most used methodology in tourism are the expert systems based on rules, observing an emerging innovation in metaheuristics, mainly genetic algorithms and intelligent systems with knowledge base b...

Objective:The aim of the study was to compare emotional intelligence in Peruvian university students from public and private universities.Theoretical framework: In higher education, emotionally intelligent students have the ability to interact appropriately with others, achieve good academic results, and reach personal and professional goals.Method: The methodology was descriptive-comparative, the sample consisted of 838 university students of both sexes from public (471) and private (364) universities belonging to the coast, highlands and jungle regions of Peru. A sociodemographic form created for the study and the emotional intelligence scale (TMMS-24) were used as measurement instruments.Results and conclusion:The results showed that university students over 30 years of age, women, those from the highlands and those who worked had high levels of emotional intelligence.Implications of ...

Solid waste management has become a critical problem in developing countries, therefore, with the aim of analyzing the Latin American scientific production on solid waste management in Scopus, a retrospective descriptive study was conducted considering as the unit of analysis the publications on solid waste management in journals indexed in Scopus, during the period 2010 to 2020. The search included all published and indexed articles, using the fields Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords, having as search term the word "Solid waste management". As result, 494 articles were found, of which 420 are original, 58 are reviews, and the rest are letters, editorials, conference papers, and notes. Brazil stands out as the largest producer of solid waste management knowledge (62.5% of Latin American production), followed by Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. On the other hand, 158 international...

This study aimed to show whether the theoretical model of the social skills construct, proposed by Gismero (2000), is invariant in male and female samples of Peruvian university students from Lambayeque. In order to meet the proposed objective, a non-experimental, cross-sectional, comparative psychometric design by hierarchical confirmatory procedures was chosen. Two samples of university students were used, one of 1,084 female students and the other of 1,043 male students. Both groups were applied the self-report of social skills (EHS). With the data obtained, a confirmatory factor analysis of the first-order factor structure of the social skills construct was performed in each group, based on the polychoric correlation matrix. The invariance of the scale according to sex was evaluated on the basis of the second-order factor structure, by means of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis...

El estudio se centró en las políticas públicas para el control de la tuberculosis en comunidades urbanas marginales quechuas y shipibos, dilucidando aspectos relacionados con la eficacia de la implementación de programas y estrategias de desarrollo social. Se utilizó la etnografía urbana como parte del estudio cualitativo. La comunidad quechua estaba más organizada y autogestionaba su progreso, contando con el apoyo del municipio, mientras que la comunidad shipibo-conibo permanecía estancada, fragmentada e inestable en su organización. La inclusión de las políticas de salud como parte de las políticas de los gobiernos locales sigue siendo un reto, por lo que coordinarlas con otras estrategias de desarrollo sostenible es un esfuerzo crucial, cuidando de no distorsionar la identidad cultural o perturbar aspectos relacionados con la implementación de otras estrategias nacionale...

Given the impact of COVID-19, teleworking has become an alternative work modality, so it is important to evaluate the scientific activity on the subject. Thus, the objective was to analyze the global scientific production on teleworking in times of COVID-19. Retrospective and descriptive study, whose unit of analysis was the publications on teleworking in journals indexed in the Scopus database between January 2020 and December 2021. The search was performed using the fields Article Title, Abstracts, Keywords, where 24 search terms were applied: teleworking, telecommuting, work from home, teleworking, telecommuting, work from home, online work, e-work, telecommuting, teletrabajo, trabado desde casa, trabajo online, e-trabajo, trabajo a distancia, teletrabalho, trabalho a partir de casa, trabalho em linha, trabalho electrónico, trabalho à distancia, and their relation with the term Covi...