Browsing by Author "Castro Reyes, Boris Santiago"

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Impacto de las redes de apoyo social en la calidad de vida de adultos mayores con enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles, en el Centro de Salud “Carlos Elizalde”, año 2018
(2019-05-14) Balboa Chimborazo, Henry; Ortiz Villa, Christian Ricardo; Castro Reyes, Boris Santiago
Background: social support networks for the elderly with chronic diseases, provide benefits and rewards that are manifested through the exchange of relationships, services, products, shelter and opportunity to maintain their quality of life. General objective: to describe the impact of social support networks on the quality of life of the elderly, with chronic noncommunicable diseases, at the "Carlos Elizalde" Health Center in Cuenca. Methodology: observational, descriptive, prospective, cross-sectional study. Participants were 276 older adults who met the inclusion criteria. The data was tabulated and analyzed with SPSS version 19.0. For the qualitative variables, mean and standard deviation were applied and in the qualitative frequencies and percentages. Results: 31.9% of respondents were between 65 and 69 years old, 66.3% were women, married at 51.4%, residents in urban areas with 74.3%, primary education at 66.7%. Hypertension was the chronic noncommunicable disease with 63.4%. Regarding the level of socio-family valuation, 44.9% were classified in a good level, 37% in an intermediate range and 18.1% of older adults were categorized as socially impaired. 35.9% had social support but it was insufficient and 4.3% did not have social support. Conclusions: social support networks for older adults, although they existed, were insufficient, in addition there were people with a great social deterioration and therefore their quality of life
Intraepithelial cervical lesions in indigenous in Ecuador
(2019) Salazar Torres, Zoila Katherine; Murillo Bacilio, Magdali Del rocio; Castro Reyes, Boris Santiago; Cardenas Heredia, Freddy Rosendo; Sanchez Salazar, Gustavo Mauricio
The aim of this research was to determine the prevalence of cervical intraepithelial lesions in indigenous women of Ecuador 2017. A descriptive study was performed. Population was formed by 2489 indigenous women aged 15 to 64 years old, of which 396 users were chosen by spontaneous demand. Frequency values and percentages were taken from qualitative variables, while mean and standard deviation were taken from quantitative variables. Prevalence of intraepithelial lesions was 13,8%. Average age was 31 years old. Uncertain importance's squamous atypical cells were higher in 30-to-39-year-old group (46,7%). Non-specific atypical glandular cells were observed in 66,7% of 30-to-39-year-old group. Low-grade intraepithelial lesions were majorly found in 20-to-29-year-old group (43,8%). High-grade intraepithelial lesions were also seen in 20-to-29-year-old group. Conclusions were: prevalence of intraepithelial lesions in indigenous women of Ecuador was higher than 10% of reported in other studies, and more frequent in those aged 20 and 39 years old.