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

Introduction: professional development is a set of educational actions linked to update knowledge and professional skills and attitudes in correspondence with the professional problems met. In Ciego de Avila, Cuba, specialists in Angiology and Vascular Surgery lack professional improvement activities in general, systematic and collective participation way, straightly performed or oriented from the University of Medical Sciences. Objective: to design a professional development program for specialists in Angiology and Vascular Surgery on the treatment of peripheral vascular diseases with the use of novel techniques based on the professional problems met. Method: a qualitative research with descriptive study was carried out in Angiology and Vascular Surgery specialists linked directly to the patient care service in 2020. It worked with the whole population comprised of 19 specialists. A survey was applied and descriptive statistics were used to organize and classify the quantitative indicators obtained. Results: knowledge on how to use the novel techniques in peripheral vascular diseases treatment proved to be inadequate at a pointed level of Less adequate and Inadequate in more than 90% of studied specialists. Conclusions: the professional development program is provided with characteristics of an open system and flexibility, which facilitates its constant redesign to adapt to the specific conditions of the contexts required.

Introduction: child maltreatment is a common psychological problem of children and adolescents around the world. Presence of various form of abuse can lead to other psychological and physical problems, so, it is necessary to identify which form of abuse is more likely to affect men and women. Objective: to analyze the differences observed in child maltreatment according to sex in Peruvian adolescents.Method: a cross-sectional, and quantitative and comparative approach study was carried out in the months of July and August 2022. A convenience sample of 1.376 adolescents who responded to a self-report on child abuse was analyzed. To compare both groups (men and women), the Mann-Whitney U-test for Bayesian independent samples was used. Results: among the various forms of child maltreatment, only was found in favor and with high evidence as alternative hypothesis, the emotional maltreatment (BF10=190.38; δ=0.31; 95 % CI: 0.20-0.48). This difference was higher in females (M=8.28) compared to males (M=7.09). In emotional and physical neglect, strong evidence was reported for the null hypothesis. Robust Bayes factor analysis confirmed the same results. Conclusions: emotional maltreatment occurs mostly in adolescent females, being the gender that requires more psychological support. In the other forms of maltreatment, no differences were found in correspondence with gender. Consequently, health professionals should consider the role of gender in emotional maltreatment, but should not neglect the other forms of child maltreatment, emphasizing the specific particularities of each case.

Introduction: one of the challenges facing universities of health sciences today is the implementation and validation of effective tools for evaluation. Objective: to evaluate the quality of the partial exams of an in-house course in Morphofunctional bases of the most common hemorrhagic diathesis in Stomatology, Facultad de Estomatología, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba, course 2022. Method: an analytical and transversal observational study was carried out. For the study, it was selected 30 of the partial exams implemented in the in-house Morphofunctional bases of the most common hemorrhagic diathesis in Stomatology course, type (E) course syllabus, Stomatology career, Facultad de Estomatología, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba, course 2022. Correspondence between scheduled time and the number of items used in the test was assessed, and also, difficulty index and discrimination index for items and questions, point-biserial item discrimination coefficient and internal consistency coefficient were calculated. Results: there was an adequate correspondence between the time scheduled for the topics and the number of items used in the exam. Items with a moderate difficulty index and high degree of discrimination index predominated. The internal consistency of the individual questions was excellent, but the exam in general was low. Conclusions: the quality of the partial exam of the in-house course Morphofunctional bases of the main hemorrhagic diathesis treated in Stomatology, giving in the Facultad de Estomatología, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba, course 2022, was inadequate.

Introduction: population aging is one of the most important phenomenon of the 21st century. Research on this subject is becoming more and more necessary every day. Objective: to determine the risk factors associated with overload in informal caregivers of prostrate older adults in the health area of Cacocum, Holguín, year 2022. Method: a cross-sectional descriptive observational study was carried out in Cacocum, Holguín, from July 5, 2021 to August 29, 2022. A total of 129 caregivers of prostrate older adults (N꓿129) were selected as the study´s universe and the sample consisted of 106 informal caregivers (n꓿106), obtained by nonprobability purposive sampling. The Zarit Scale was used to determine factors associated with overload in caregivers. Variables studied were as follow: age, sex, educational level, daily hours dedicated to caregiving, relationship between the caregiver and the patient, and the manifestation of overload in caregivers.Results: there was predominance in the age group of 60 to 69 years and female sex. Caregivers with twelfth grade of education and manifestation of overloaded were predominant. There was a predominance of caregivers with family ties and a significant relationship with overload. Predominated caregivers who spent an average of 18 hours per day in the care of the patients and the caregivers who had spent 3 to 4 years in caregiving, a significant relationship with overload was found. Conclusions: the relationship established between the caregivers and patients in terms of filial relationship and the years spent in the care provided to the patient were the factors most associated with the development of overload.

Introduction: the correct writing of medical records is essential for the correct treatment of patients. Objective: to assess how a writing program aimed at writing clinical histories favors written communicative competence in students of Dentistry at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas in Camagüey. Method: a pre-experimental study was carried out from March to December 2020 in students of dentistry career at the Clínica Estomatológica Provincial Docente "Ismael Clark y Mascaró", located in the faculty with the same name. The population studied involved a total of 101 fifth year students and 30 of them were selected as sample. The method of interview was conducted on 10 professors. The study took place in three moments: Diagnosis, Intervention and Evaluation. The workshop procedure was chosen as the organizational form. Descriptive statistics were used for data processing. Results: the application of rules, coherence, cohesion and the interviews quality were affected by the students unfamiliar practice on the writing process and because the short time of procedures limits reading and correction. Conclusions: assess of the program proposed has made the possibility of getting to know the difficulties presented by the students. It promotes knowledge and awareness of the processes involved in writing and giving respect for each recursive moments through which writing takes place.

The Putumayo Atrocities (murder, torture, Slavery of indigenous rubber workers) committed by the British registered Peruvian Amazon Company are well known. The official response of the British Government was that there was no direct British involvement; they were an aberration. There is though much evidence that during the early years of the 20th century, other British rubber companies in the Amazon Basin used the enganche por deudas bonded labour system. This article, adopting a granular approach, examines the activities of one British company, the Tambopata Rubber Syndicate, concentrating on its barracas at San Carlos and Marte, between 1907 and 1913. Using unpublished sources (diaries, correspondence and company records) it reveals direct British involvement in slavery. It details ill-treatment of indigenous workers and demonstrates the human consequences of rubber exploitation.

This essay analyzes the process of pacification and evangelization of the indigenous population settled in the area that, since the second half of the 16th century, would be known as “provincia de los coanos”, a territory located between the confluences of the current states of Jalisco and Nayarit, in western Mexico. With information from archive sources from the 16th century, the text highlights the indigenous resistance to hispanic colonization and the vicissitudes that the first authorities of Nueva Galicia had to achieve the definitive pacification of this significant enclave that during the viceroyalty served as a important mining region.

This text offers a preliminary approach to the photographic production with which the United Nations and its specialized agencies documented their technical assistance programs in Latin America during the postwar decades. The analyzed material comes mostly from reporting missions organized from the headquarters of entities such as Unesco, WHO, or FAO, and deployed on a global scale as part of ambitious public information campaigns that sought to give legitimacy to the multilateral development model promoted by the UN. The result of these missions was the consolidation of large visual archives, the contents of which circulated actively in various formats such as magazines, traveling exhibitions, albums, and official reports. Both the production and the massive distribution of these images are understood in the text as elements of the same photographic project in which the different agencies agreed from their particular organization charts, and which seeks to thematize aspects such as its historical background, its operational dynamics, the humanitarian rhetoric about the Americas that predominated in the collections, among others. The writing stems from an ongoing investigation that aims to reflect on the way in which certain visual languages – typical of mass culture – contributed to conceptualizing a disputed notion such as development in a geographical space still neglected by literature as it is Latin American. The recorded annotations are based on a methodological triangulation between the official resolutions of the analyzed agencies and the partial observations of a photographic database still in the process of elaboration.