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

Objective: to identify the benefits of spirituality in the health of the elderly. Method: narrative bibliographic review, a bibliographic search of original articles published during 2017-2021, in the databases PubMed, Tripdata Base, Cochrane, BVS, ScienceDirect and Lilacs was performed using the descriptors: spirituality, elderly, older adults and health in languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English, advanced search was performed and then compliance with the exclusion and inclusion criteria was verified, finally it was validated by applying methodological guidelines obtaining a sample of 25 documents.  Main results: the selected articles were qualitative, quantitative and mixed; following the content analysis, they were grouped into central categories: spirituality and positive attitude towards life and wellbeing; spirituality and strengthening of mental health; spirituality and biophysical wellbeing; spiritual care and the importance of its approach from nursing and health professionals. Main conclusions: the greatest interest in addressing spirituality in older adults is related to pathological processes and how to address them in a more effective way, in addition to improving their health-related behavior. For future studies, research is needed to deepen specific actions from health sciences, nursing and other areas of knowledge.

Objective: Determine the estimation of dietary fiber of nursing students from a private university, Chiclayo 2020. Method: This study was quantitative, the design was non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional. The population consisted of 294 students from the nursing school, the sample was stratified of 164 students, selected by simple random sampling. As a technique, the survey was used and the instrument was the “Food consumption frequency questionnaire” and a “24-hour reminder (R24H)”. The research took into account the criteria of scientific rigor and ethical principles of Belmont, and for data processing the SPSS v 25 program was used. Main results: It obtaining as a result that the average consumption of dietary fiber of the nursing students was 15, 37 gr. / day; Regarding the frequency of food consumption according to the food source, a consumption within the recommended was found in the groups of cereals (55.5%), legumes (48.8%), meats (58.5%), Added fats and sugars (55.5%), but low in fruits (36.6%), vegetables (37.8), dairy (33.5%) and water (44.5%). Overall conclusion: That the estimate of dietary fiber intake gr /day is less than that recommended by the WHO-FAO.

The following essay aims to reflect on the practices of cultural health care in the native peoples. The diversity of values, beliefs, culturally different care practices are identified, in the diversity of environmental contexts, whose common characteristic is that such care is offered at different stages of the life cycle and is provided by close members of the family and the community, sharing all the knowledge that has been transmitted from generation to generation. Respect for the other requires the care offered by the nurse in a respectful, competent and accessible manner with the customs of the original peoples, coming from and practicing cultural diversity. In the same way that knowledge becomes prevailing through the learning of these cultural practices typical of each region, whose scenario or environmental context must be recognized in order to achieve cultural empathy in the optimal care offered.

Nursing professionals immersed in the real intrahospital, community or scientific world, developing as clinical or teaching specialists and endorsed with a specialty, master's or doctoral degree, found time available for research practice, a very typical situation in Peruvian nursing.

Objective: To describe, analyze and understand the nurse's perception of the care provided to patients with COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit, Chiclayo 2021. Method: The study was qualitative, with descriptive design. The population consisted of 69 ICU nurses; the sample consisted of 15 nurses of which 8 were from the Regional Hospital, 3 from the Luis Heysen Incháustegui Hospital and 4 from the Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo Hospital; the sample size was determined by convenience sampling with snowball technique. The instrument was a semi-structured interview, with prior informed consent using the ZOOM platform; the information was analyzed using the content analysis method. Ethical principles and scientific criteria were considered in the research. Main results: Three categories emerged as results: I. Describing personalized and comprehensive care to the patient with COVID-19 in the ICU; II. Prioritization of care based on the needs of the patient with COVID-19 and III. Attitudes and feelings when caring for the patient with COVID-19. Overall conclusion: Nursing care is important, personalized, demanding, demanding, thorough, dedicated and specialized, considering the patient with COVID-19 a pan-dimensional being focusing on his physical, emotional and spiritual dimension; committed to their work the nurses presented feelings of guilt, sadness, anxiety, stress and worry about contagion with positive, empathic and fighting attitudes.   Keywords: perception, care. Descriptors: nurse (D009726), COVID-19 (Coronavirus infections) (D018352), intensive care (critical care) (D003422). Source: DeCS

Objective: Determine the relationship between maternal knowledge and practices on complementary feeding in a health center in Lambayeque, Peru 2021. Method: This research was non-experimental, quantitative, correlational, cross-sectional. The sample consisted of 151 mothers, obtained by StatCalc, from a population of 250. The sampling was simple random probabilistic, the technique used was the survey and the instrument was a questionnaire prepared by Barzola, resulting in 0.059 in the table of concordance, determining its validity, the Kuder Richardson statistical test was also applied with a result of 0.62. Subsequently, descriptive tables were built on the variables studied and the Pearson correlation and determination model was used through SPSS V24 software. The ethical criteria taken into account during the investigation were: respect for people, justice and beneficence. Main results: It was obtained that 63% of the mothers do not know general aspects and characteristics of the complementary feeding provided to their children. Likewise, 68% have inadequate practices on hygiene, preparation, food storage and mother-child interaction, when the variables are correlated, it was found to be significant at the 0.01 level (bilateral), according to Pearson's correlation coefficient. Overall conclusion: There is a high relationship, it is possibly due to the lack of food education that mothers have during the age (8 to 11 months) in which children do not have any scheduled immunizations despite the fact that they must attend monthly until the year for your controls.

Objective: To understand the lived experience of the elderly in the new normal after isolation by COVID-19.   Methods: A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted from August 2021 to June 2022 in Guanajuato, Mexico; the selection criteria were: adults over 60 years of age, who have resumed their activities after isolation and who were vaccinated against COVID-19. Snowball sampling with 9 participants by information saturation criteria. Data collection through phenomenological interview, audio-recorded. Phenomenological analysis was performed with Van Manen's method, ethical principles were respected in accordance with the General Health Law on Health Research, and participants gave their informed consent. Main results: The following themes emerged: Emotional experience upon return; Influence of COVID-19 and fear in the return to daily life; Routine changes in the life of the older adult adapted to the new normality; Daily self-care. Older adults emphasized the importance of care but also of adapting to the new recommendations issued from face-to-face care.  Overall conclusion: The return to the new normality after the COVID-19 pandemic in older adults was marked by different emotions, on the one hand joy and on the other hand the persistent fear of contagion, however, the change in routine and daily self-care could also be evidenced.

Objective: To understand the lived experience of mental health care in the elderly during isolation by COVID-19.  Method: Qualitative phenomenological study, conducted in Guanajuato, Mexico from May-December 2021, people aged 60+ years, men and women, snowball collection with information saturation (12 participants), data collection by telephone phenomenological interview, which was audio-recorded, Van Manen's phenomenological analysis method, respecting the ethical criteria of the regulations of the General Health Law on Health Research. Main results: of the 12 participants, 7 were women and 5 men, with an age range between 60 and 79; emerging themes such as: 1. Perception of emotional alterations, 2. Aging and importance of mental health, 3. Fear of contagion and its care, 4. Infodemic, 5. Daily activities for mental health. Overall conclusion: the elderly means the care of mental health in relation to aging and being elderly in the midst of a pandemic, this mental health was cared for through the management of information and the adjustment of daily activities that strengthened their emotional and cognitive well-being.

Objective: Describe, analyze and understand the communication of the nursing professional with patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in a public hospital in Chiclayo, 2021. Method: Qualitative research, with a descriptive approach. The population was made up of 14 nursing professionals who work in the COVID area of the Lambayeque Regional Hospital; the sample was determined by saturation and redundancy criteria and non-probabilistic snowball sampling. For data collection, the semi-structured online interview was used, which was validated by expert judgment and subjected to a pilot test. The data were analyzed through thematic analysis; respecting ethical criteria and scientific rigor. Main results: The following categories were obtained: 1) Barriers that interfere in the communication of the nurse with the patient with COVID-19, 2) Repercussion of the emotional state in the communication between the nurse and patient with COVID-19, 3) Strategies to improve the communication with the COVID-19 patient and family. Overall conclusion: The use of personal protective equipment by the nurse is a barrier to communication with the patient with COVID-19; It is also evident that the patient is afraid of the disease and the nursing professionals fear contagion, which is why communication is distant.

Objective: Describe and analyze the lifestyles of the Nursing student of a Private University in times of COVID-19, Chiclayo 2021. Method: The study methodology was qualitative with a descriptive approach, and the sample was saturated with 12 students from the VIII Nursing cycle enrolled in the 2021-I semester, which was determined by saturation and redundancy and the sampling was non-probabilistic for convenience. In data collection, a semi-structured interview guide was used, validated through the judgment of 3 experts and a pilot study. Data analysis was determined by content analysis. During the development of the research, the principles of scientific rigor and bioethics were considered. Main results: Three categories were obtained as results: a) Eating behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, b) Sleep disorders due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, c) Sedentary lifestyle and physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall conclusion: The results shown in this study indicate that, during the. COVID-19, the lifestyles of nursing students have been modified, where unhealthy lifestyles prevail.