Objetivos: Determinar la prevalencia de depresión en pacientes oncológicos atendidos en el Instituto Regional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas de Junín durante el año 2024. Metodología: Se empleó un enfoque de investigación mixto, con un tipo de investigación observacional, transversal y descriptivo, y un diseño de investigación no experimental. Además, el instrumento utilizado para la recolección de datos fue el Inventario de Depresión de Beck-II (BDI-II). La muestra estuvo compuesta por 376 pacientes oncológicos que estaban recibiendo tratamiento de quimioterapia. Resultados: La prevalencia de depresión en pacientes oncológicos mostró que el 79% (297 pacientes) presentaba depresión moderada, el 10,9% (41 pacientes) depresión leve, el 2.7% (10 pacientes) depresión mínima y el 7,4% (28 pacientes) depresión grave. Además, la depresión moderada fue la categoría más co...

Introduction: Readers express their comments in the form of letters to the editor about previously published articles, original research that does not reach the original article, or general topics that require attention because of their novelty. It has the possibility of receiving a response in the form of a reply. Objective: Describe the characteristics of the letters to the editor published during the period 2015-2020 in the journals of medical education in Spanish indexed in SciELO or Scopus. Method: A descriptive, retrospective, and bibliometric study of the letters to the editor of the journals: Educación Médica, Educación Médica Superior, Investigación en Educación Médica y la Revista de la Fundación Educación Médica. The period covered was from January 2015 to December 2020. Results: The annual average of letters to the editor was 13.23%, with a minimum value of 6.58% in...

Objective: To identify the factors associated with fear of COVID-19 prior to returning to in-person classes among medicalstudents. Materials and methods: An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. Through convenience sampling, aquestionnaire was administered to 252 students from a medical school in Huancayo, Peru. The questionnaire consisted of a first section comprising the study information and informed consent, another one devoted to the sociodemographic characteristics and a last section which included validated questionnaires used in similar contexts, such as the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), and a psychological questionnaire, i.e., the DASS-21 questionnaire, made up of three subscalesthat assess both the presence and level of depression, anxiety and stress. To determine the correlation between thescales, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used. In addition, cr...