Las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles se han convertido en una sombra que amenaza la salud y el bienestar de la humanidad. Cada año, millones de vidas se apagan prematuramente debido a la enfermedad cardiovascular, los accidentes cerebrovasculares, el cáncer, la diabetes y las enfermedades respir...
Introduction: Numerous factors contribute over time to changes in lifestyle behaviors, and the COVID-19 pandemic not only altered individuals' routines but also influenced the factors affecting their chronic conditions. Objective: To understand the perception of patients with cardiometabolic diseases reg...
Introduction: Chagas disease is an infectious disease caused by the parasitism process of the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Given its potential for chronicity, nursing care in the health care of patients with Chagas disease will provide an improvement in quality of life and the prognosis of the disease. O...
Objective: Determine the association and utility of measuring estradiol-to-testosterone ratio on erectile dysfunction (ED) and libido.
Materials and methods: This is a case–control study involving 32 adult male patients with chronic pathologies who consulted for sexual dysfunction. Cases defined as su...
Introducción: la necesidad de cuidado se ha incrementado de manera exponencial en los últimos años, asociada a enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles. Los cuidadores han sido principalmente mujeres, si bien en los últimos años se ha incrementado el número de hombres que asumen este papel. Cada uno...
Objective. To describe the recruitment, retention of family caregivers, and adherence to a telephone based intervention evaluated in a multi-site trial and provide recommendations for the design of future studies. Methods.A descriptive study based on a secondary analy...
Objective. To discuss multilevel self-management intervention research in nursing to decrease health disparities among people living with chronic diseases. Content synthesis. Multilevel interventions have become the core of nursing research in the last decade. However,...
Objetivo: realizar la validación de constructo, convergente y discriminante del instrumento Adopción del rol del cuidador con uso de medicamentos (ROL-M) y evaluar la consistencia interna de este. Materiales y método: estudio de validación psicométrica realizado entre agosto de 2020 y febrero de 202...
Objetivo: describir el significado de la cronicidad para el cuidador y la persona cuidada con enfermedad crónica no transmisible (ECNT). Materiales y método: se realizó una revisión integrativa empleando la propuesta de Whittemore y Knafl mediante los siguientes pasos: identificación del objetivo o ...
Objectives: To describe and correlate burden and social support in low-income caregivers of chronic patients. Material and methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 170 low-income family caregivers of people with chronic diseases who answered a survey on sociodemographic and car...
