Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Hypertension is one of the chronic diseases with the highest incidence worldwide and a cause of considerable mortality and disability. This paper aims to evaluate the effect of mobile phone text messaging on adherence to hypertension treatment. A quasi-experimental before-after intervention was conducted based on interviews with patients from a chronic disease outpatient program. Four groups were formed, one of which was the control group. The groups intervened were sent encouraging educational text messages at varying frequencies for a period of two months. At the close of the intervention, participants were asked to fill in the Martín Bayarre Grau questionnaire to determine their adherence to antihypertensive treatment before and after the intervention. A bivariate analysis was performed comparing the variable adherence to treatment before and after the intervention in the four study groups. A significant difference was only found in Group 3 (p = 0.011). This group was sent eight messages per month (two messages per week). Additionally, a comparison between the intervention groups and the control group conducted at two months found a significant difference in Group 3 (p = 0.022). The intervention proved was useful to improve adherence in the study population. A positive response was obtained in Group 3, who received eight messages per month.

El desarrollo tecnológico y modernización de las plataformas de socialización de la ciencia han provocado, a la par de una mayor difusión de resultados y su consiguiente contribución a su desarrollo, una serie de prácticas negativas que aprovechan modelos de acceso abierto para obtener ganancias. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo identificar los principales rasgos de las revistas depredadoras. Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica en Google Scholar, Dialnet, SciELO y PubMed, a partir de la cual fueron seleccionados 43 artículos para su análisis. Se aplicó como criterio de inclusión que los estudios incorporaran conclusiones sobre las principales características y formas de identificación de las revistas depredadoras; el principal criterio de exclusión fue que los artículos no pudieran ser descargados íntegramente.Revista depredadora es aquella que, aprovechándose del modelo de acceso abierto o de modelos híbridos, cobran a sus autores por la liberación de sus artículos sin que medie revisión alguna, aun cuando lo prometen en sus procesos editoriales. Persiguen principalmente la ganancia de dinero fácil y rápido, no la difusión del conocimiento ni la contribución a la ciencia. Las revistas depredadoras se caracterizan por no proporcionar datos sobre sus editores, se dan a conocer mediante correos spam con lenguaje persuasivo que alimenta la idea de legitimidad y promete la amplia indexación del texto. Dan la impresión de tener sede en países desarrollados, y usualmente presentan ISSN falsos o inexistentes.

Las métricas alternativas ofrecen una visión sobre el impacto de las publicaciones científicas en las redes sociales. Los objetivos del artículo son establecer el impacto de las principales publicaciones en español sobre Cardiología y determinar la correlación entre las redes sociales y las medidas tradicionales. Se analizó el impacto de 11,053 referencias de revistas de Cardiología en español, publicadas entre 2010 y 2019, a través del número de citas recibidas en Scopus, Altmetric y el buscador Dimensions. Para analizar la correlación entre las citas tradicionales y las métricas alternativas se utilizó l coeficiente de correlación de Spearman. Del total de referencias analizadas, 7,089 (64,3 %) recibieron al menos una cita en Scopus o Dimensions; mientras que 1, 975 (17,87 %) tuvieron un Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) ≥ 1. No obstante, el porcentaje de artículos con AAS ≥ 1 creció anualmente: del 2,14 % de artículos publicados en el año 2010 se pasó al 25,62 % en el 2019. La correlación encontrada entre los sistemas de citas tradicionales y las alternativas fue insignificante; obtuvieron los valores r más elevados entre Mendeley y Dimensions (r = 0,13, p < 0,01) y Mendeley y Scopus (r = 0,10, p < 0,01). Mejora si solo se toman referencias con AAS ≥ 1 o se hace la correlación año a año. Aunque las publicaciones analizadas aún tienen un impacto relativamente bajo en las redes sociales, este indicador está creciendo; por lo que no se debe subestimar. Existe una correlación ligeramente positiva, entre las métricas tradicionales y las alternativas.

This study aimed to analyse the world scientific production on antifungals from plants indexed in the Scopus database (2000-2020), highlighting the Cuban scientific production on this topic as a case study. Scopus raw data based on “antifungal” and “plants” hits were cleaned using the OpenRefine tool to eliminate similar and duplicate results. Cleaned data was processed using VOSviewer software for keyword-based bibliometric analysis. The 5000 most common words from the Corpus of Contemporary American English were excluded. A co-occurrence analysis was performed taking into account only authors keywords and using the complete count method. 24 084 documents were identified, of which 85.8% were original articles and 9.6% were reviews. The most productive journals were Journals of Ethnopharmacology, Natural Product Research and Fitoterapia. The annual scientific production was uniform with a linear growth. The thematic structure according to the co-occurrence network indicates that the most frequent terms were “essential oils”, “antioxidant”, “medicinal plants”, “Candida albicans” and “flavonoids”. In the case of Cuba, of the 64 publications on the subject, 90.6% were original articles and 6.3% were reviews. The Cuban magazines with the highest production were Revista Cubana de Plantas Medicinales and Biotecnología Aplicada. The most frequent terms according to the co-occurrence network in Cuban publications were “Staphylococcus aureus”, “Candida albicans”, “plant leaf”, “antimicrobial activity”, “medicinal plants” and “flavonoids”. These results prove that the global scientific community as well as the Cuban scientist are interested on the topic, further demonstrating that plants could become a reliable source of antifungal drugs.

Companies coexist in an environment with a high level of uncertainty. The scenario is characterized by the influence of multiple factors, which determine the need to assume the new paradigm of sustainable innovation. The adaptive capacity must be guaranteed in the face of constant changes, through the articulation of the four dynamic aspects -emergence, competition, co-evolution and resilience- of the innovation ecosystem. This is supported by strategic communication, in a dialogic, interactive and bidirectional relationship between the organization, the actors and their context. The objective of the work was to implement the communication process in the Integrated Innovation and Surveillance and Intelligence Management System (SIGIVeI) of the Information Technology Enterprise (ETI) of BioCubaFarma, during the year 2020, based on the strategic model. The research was based on the current legal and regulatory framework, the business and communication strategy, the scope and objectives of the integrated system and the needs of stakeholders. Paul Capriotti's methodology was used and its three phases were developed: diagnosis, plan design and implementation. Communication was covered as a transversal, transparent and dynamic process of SIGIVeI. This allowed the transition from a traditional approach, oriented to dissemination, to a strategic communication model, in the synergy between the social, cognitive, affective and conative dimensions, leading to decisive action. The fulfillment of the success indicator in the period, based on a flexible and adaptable implementation to internal and external influences, contributed to consolidate the entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem.

The study aimed to map the production of knowledge on telemonitoring of elderly people followed up in households and to identify gaps in existing research. This is a scope review, 25 articles were selected in gray literature and in the following databases: MEDLINE (access via PubMed), Web of Science (WoS), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) and Virtual Health Library (BVS). The scope study made it possible to map the main repercussions of telemonitoring of elderly people accompanied at home. It also allowed us to recognize the main sources of telemonitoring that are used by the public. The findings may contribute to strengthening the use of telemonitoring of elderly people assisted in the community, due to the benefits in quality of life and to the expansion of advanced nursing practices using this strategy with this population group. Telemonitoring enables de-hospitalization, the transition of care to the home and early readmissions by supervising the health and/or disease parameters of patients at a distance with Information and Communication Technologies.

El objetivo de este estudio fue investigar los cambios en los patrones de búsqueda en línea de ejercicio y la influencia del aislamiento social y las variables socioeconómicas durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en Brasil. Se utilizó Google Trends para recuperar el volumen de búsqueda sobre el tema “ejercicio físico”, en la categoría “fitness y belleza”, durante dos períodos: los cinco años anteriores y del 1 de enero al 16 de mayo de 2020. La fecha límite fue el 12 de marzo. Después de este límite, el volumen de búsqueda real y los valores pronosticados por el análisis exponencial se compararon mediante la prueba t de Student. Se crearon dos modelos de regresión lineal. En el primero, el volumen de búsqueda para el segundo período fue la variable de resultado y el índice de rigurosidad de la respuesta del gobierno (GSRI, por sus siglas en inglés) fue la variable predictiva. En el segundo modelo la variable dependiente fue la diferencia entre los valores antes y después del punto de corte, por el Estado brasileño. Las variables predictivas probadas fueron: porcentaje de aislamiento social; acceso a Internet; IDHm; renta per cápita de los hogares y ranking de las ciudades amigas de la actividad física. Se identificó una diferencia de 29,8 % entre las variables en el primer análisis. Además, el GSRI explicó el 51,2 % de la variación en el volumen de investigación y el segundo modelo explica hasta el 42 % de los cambios en la variable resultado. En conclusión, el aislamiento social promovido por el gobierno durante la pandemia de COVID-19, en el período evaluado, tuvo impacto en la búsqueda de temas relacionados con el ejercicio físico en Internet entre los brasileños.

This paper aims to carry out a diagnosis of the mental health of ongoing (non-egress) students from the postgraduate programs in Information Science in Brazil, understanding the impact of CAPES regulations in this reality. The study is quali-quantitative, descriptive and exploratory. The methodology is based on a documentary research and case study. The Documentary Research was applied in the analysis of the National Postgraduate Plan 2011-2020. In the Case Study, a questionnaire was sent to graduate programs and groups of students exposed on social networks. It was observed that students have feelings and behaviors of anxiety, stress, and depression. The results showed that most of the students enrolled in the programs which participated in this research make use of psychiatric drugs. Students would like to focus on research in order to deepen the results, however, due to deadlines and the high need for scientific production, this reality is not always possible, which makes students frustrated. It concludes that the graduate program structure can contribute to the development of mental illnesses, since it is based on competition between masters and doctoral students. This competition generates insecurities, nervousness and, as a consequence, students focus on quantity rather than quality of scientific research. Because of that, the context of scientific research should be based on a collaborative culture to encourage students to construct knowledge and networks together.

The use of technological tools has gained great popularity globally in recent years. In this context, the capacity of the Internet as a source of information, in terms of disease epidemiology, has been addressed. Cuban society has more and more access to the Internet; therefore, the search for information through these media is becoming more frequent. An observational, correlational and retrospective study was carried out using the Google Trends computer tool, with the objective of analyzing the relationship between the searches of the COVID-19 topic in Internet and the behavior of the disease in Cuba. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Temporal coincidences were observed between the peaks of diagnosed cases and the days with higher relative volumes of searches, with the identification of an average delay of two days. The Pearson correlation coefficient between both variables was 0.546. The most searched terms in this period in relation to the pandemic were those concerning symptoms. The most searched topic was vaccines against the disease, with figures much higher than the rest. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the relative volume of daily searches and deceased patients was 0.175, showing the existence of a weak correlation between the two variables. It was concluded that the relative volumes of daily COVID-19 searches have a strong positive correlation with the number of daily cases diagnosed and can even be used in short-term predictive modeling.

Este artículo tiene como objetivo relatar la experiencia del bibliotecario clínico en la preparación y respuesta a la pandemia de COVID-19 en la Biblioteca Hospitalaria del Centro de Estudios del Hospital “Felicio Rocho” en Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Se trata de una investigación cualitativa y descriptiva que aborda el papel del bibliotecario clínico en el contexto de la biblioteca hospitalaria brasileña. Para ello se describen la biblioteca, los servicios que ofrece al equipo médico, las oportunidades y desafíos del bibliotecario clínico, la necesidad de capacitación y la alianza con el equipo médico en la primera línea de la COVID-19. El bibliotecario clínico desempeñó un papel importante en el apoyo a la toma de decisiones frente a la pandemia de la COVID-19. Así, el relato de experiencia busca un aporte a las Ciencias de la Información frente a una pandemia y las lecciones aprendidas por este profesional.