Assessment of Obsessive Thoughts About COVID-19 in 7 Latin American Countries: Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Obsession With COVID-19 Scale
Omega (Westport). 2023 Oct 26:302228231210148. doi: 10.1177/00302228231210148. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (OCS) among seven Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Although the OCS has been used in several countries and languages, there is a need for approaches that better integrate the cross-cultural equivalence of the scale. A total of 3185 people participated in the study. The results indicated the presence of a unidimensional structure and good reliability indice...
Source: Omega - October 26, 2023 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tom ás Caycho-Rodríguez Renzo Rivera-Calcina Lindsey W Vilca Carlos Carbajal-Le ón Pablo D Valencia Daniel E Yupanqui-Lorenzo Walter L Arias Gallegos Mario Reyes-Bossio Nicol Or é-Kovacs Claudio Rojas-Jara Miguel Gallegos Roberto Polanco-Carrasco Maur Source Type: research
Assessment of Obsessive Thoughts About COVID-19 in 7 Latin American Countries: Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Obsession With COVID-19 Scale
Omega (Westport). 2023 Oct 26:302228231210148. doi: 10.1177/00302228231210148. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (OCS) among seven Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Although the OCS has been used in several countries and languages, there is a need for approaches that better integrate the cross-cultural equivalence of the scale. A total of 3185 people participated in the study. The results indicated the presence of a unidimensional structure and good reliability indice...
Source: Omega - October 26, 2023 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tom ás Caycho-Rodríguez Renzo Rivera-Calcina Lindsey W Vilca Carlos Carbajal-Le ón Pablo D Valencia Daniel E Yupanqui-Lorenzo Walter L Arias Gallegos Mario Reyes-Bossio Nicol Or é-Kovacs Claudio Rojas-Jara Miguel Gallegos Roberto Polanco-Carrasco Maur Source Type: research
Assessment of Obsessive Thoughts About COVID-19 in 7 Latin American Countries: Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Obsession With COVID-19 Scale
Omega (Westport). 2023 Oct 26:302228231210148. doi: 10.1177/00302228231210148. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study aimed to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Obsession with COVID-19 Scale (OCS) among seven Latin American countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Although the OCS has been used in several countries and languages, there is a need for approaches that better integrate the cross-cultural equivalence of the scale. A total of 3185 people participated in the study. The results indicated the presence of a unidimensional structure and good reliability indice...
Source: Omega - October 26, 2023 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tom ás Caycho-Rodríguez Renzo Rivera-Calcina Lindsey W Vilca Carlos Carbajal-Le ón Pablo D Valencia Daniel E Yupanqui-Lorenzo Walter L Arias Gallegos Mario Reyes-Bossio Nicol Or é-Kovacs Claudio Rojas-Jara Miguel Gallegos Roberto Polanco-Carrasco Maur Source Type: research
Subregional efforts to improve childhood cancer care in the Andean countries
This report describes the work of the ministries of health and the Secretariat of the Andean Health Organization (Organismo Andino de Salud - Convenio Hipólito Unánue (ORAS-CONHU)), to develop the Andean Cancer Prevention and Control Policy, with consideration given to childhood cancers. The policy was based on analysis of the cancer situation in the six Andean countries - Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) - between 2015 and 2020, and it was approved in 2022. An in-depth study is currently being carried out on the situation of childhood cancer in the A...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - October 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Maria Del Carmen Calle Marisela Mallqui Luis Beingolea Forlly Chavez Patricia Gallardo Liliana V ásquez Hernan Sep úlveda Source Type: research
Violence Exposure Among Women in the Sex Industry and Their Children in El Alto, Bolivia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study
Violence Vict. 2023 Oct 12:VV-2021-0002.R1. doi: 10.1891/VV-2021-0002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe conducted a comparative cross-sectional study to compare the prevalence of exposure to workplace violence and intimate partner violence (IPV) in 125 female sex workers (FSWs) and 125 age-matched control women working in other professions (non-FSWs) and their children in El Alto, Bolivia. Violence exposure was assessed using the Demographic Health Survey Domestic Violence Module. To determine associations between work type and violence exposure, we conducted multivariate logistic regression. One-third of working mothers e...
Source: Cancer Control - October 12, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Lara Antkowiak Ren ée Boynton-Jarrett Silvia S Chiang Dora Castellon Peter B Gilbert Michal Juraska Colin M Sox Chi-Cheng Huang Source Type: research
Temporal patterns of breast cancer incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and risk factors in 12 South American Countries, 1990 –2019: an examination using estimates from the global burden of disease 2019 study
ConclusionWith increasing incidence, high MIR and rising BC burden due to modifiable risk factors, several public health interventions are required in South America focusing on prevention, BC awareness among general public, cost-effective early detection and treatments that suit the socio-economic setup of South American countries. (Source: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment)
Source: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment - October 11, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
H - 62 Current State of the Practice of Clinical Neuropsychology in Bolivia
CONCLUSIONS: Neuropsychology is a relatively new field of work in Bolivia. For this reason, the participants considered that to enhance the quality of this specialty in Bolivia, new graduate programs in neuropsychology must be developed, more standardized tests validated, and more job positions created, especially in public institutions. Additionally, a professional organization that regulates the standards of this field needs to be established.PMID:37807561 | DOI:10.1093/arclin/acad067.380 (Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology)
Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology - October 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Diego Jofre Zarate Eric Roth Javier Fernando Calder ón-Encinas Daniela Ramos-Usuga Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla Source Type: research
H - 62 Current State of the Practice of Clinical Neuropsychology in Bolivia
CONCLUSIONS: Neuropsychology is a relatively new field of work in Bolivia. For this reason, the participants considered that to enhance the quality of this specialty in Bolivia, new graduate programs in neuropsychology must be developed, more standardized tests validated, and more job positions created, especially in public institutions. Additionally, a professional organization that regulates the standards of this field needs to be established.PMID:37807561 | DOI:10.1093/arclin/acad067.380 (Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology)
Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology - October 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Diego Jofre Zarate Eric Roth Javier Fernando Calder ón-Encinas Daniela Ramos-Usuga Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla Source Type: research
H - 62 Current State of the Practice of Clinical Neuropsychology in Bolivia
CONCLUSIONS: Neuropsychology is a relatively new field of work in Bolivia. For this reason, the participants considered that to enhance the quality of this specialty in Bolivia, new graduate programs in neuropsychology must be developed, more standardized tests validated, and more job positions created, especially in public institutions. Additionally, a professional organization that regulates the standards of this field needs to be established.PMID:37807561 | DOI:10.1093/arclin/acad067.380 (Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology)
Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology - October 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Diego Jofre Zarate Eric Roth Javier Fernando Calder ón-Encinas Daniela Ramos-Usuga Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla Source Type: research
Divergent Genotype of Hepatitis A Virus in Alpacas, Bolivia, 2019
Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 5;29(12). doi: 10.3201/eid2912.231123. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHepatitis A virus (HAV) is a common human pathogen found exclusively in primates. In a molecular and serologic study of 64 alpacas in Bolivia, we detected RNA of distinct HAV in ≈9% of animals and HAV antibodies in ≈64%. Complete-genome analysis suggests a long association of HAV with alpacas.PMID:37796297 | DOI:10.3201/eid2912.231123 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - October 5, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Talitha Veith L Fabian Beltran-Saavedra Tobias Bleicker Marie Luisa Schmidt Jos é L Mollericona Kim Gr ützmacher Rob Wallace Jan Felix Drexler Christian Walzer Terry C Jones Christian Drosten Victor Max Corman Source Type: research
Divergent Genotype of Hepatitis A Virus in Alpacas, Bolivia, 2019
Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 5;29(12). doi: 10.3201/eid2912.231123. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHepatitis A virus (HAV) is a common human pathogen found exclusively in primates. In a molecular and serologic study of 64 alpacas in Bolivia, we detected RNA of distinct HAV in ≈9% of animals and HAV antibodies in ≈64%. Complete-genome analysis suggests a long association of HAV with alpacas.PMID:37796297 | DOI:10.3201/eid2912.231123 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - October 5, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Talitha Veith L Fabian Beltran-Saavedra Tobias Bleicker Marie Luisa Schmidt Jos é L Mollericona Kim Gr ützmacher Rob Wallace Jan Felix Drexler Christian Walzer Terry C Jones Christian Drosten Victor Max Corman Source Type: research
