Biomedical and Psychosocial Research with Community Approach in Ecuador

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Keywords:

biomedical research, psychosocial investigations, community focus, mental health, posttraumatic stress.

Abstract

Introduction: In 2020 and 2021, the Department of Research on Addiction of Havana University of Medical Sciences participated as teachers, advisors and thesis directors in two academic training programs for Ecuadorian students: specialization in Family and Community Medicine and master's degree in Clinical Psychology with a mention in Community Mental Health.

Objective: To describe the results of the study and the research concluded in both academic training programs.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out based on the analysis of the sixty nine research projects established. The content analysis of 20% of the investigations was carried out to describe the results.

Results: 63.8% of the studies were biomedical research and 36.1% were psychosocial studies. In both cases, communities was the social context (84.7%). Among the medical investigations, those aimed at the patient with hypertension (39.1%) focused on therapeutic adherence (32.6%) predominated. In the psychological studies, those intended at children and adolescents (23.0%) and health professionals (23.0%) focused on mental disorders (19.2%) prevailed.

Conclusions: These projects yielded satisfactory results. The community approach in biomedical research was more systematically described. Contents related to therapeutic adherence and the effects on mental health were addressed. The impact of COVID-19 was assessed as generator of difficulties in children and adolescents, health professionals, and in the population.

 

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Author Biographies

Justo Reinaldo Fabelo Roche, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana

Jefe del Dpto. de Investigaciones en Adicciones. Profesor e Investigador Titular. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana

Tamara Rodríguez Quintana, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

Especialista en Medicina General Integral, Master en Salud Pública. Profesora e Investigadora de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

Serguei Iglesias Moré, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana

Master en Psicología Clínica y de la Salud. Profesor e Investigador Auxiliar. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana

Yusel Iraklys Salazar Guerra, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí

Doctor en Ciencias Médiccas. Profesor e Investigador. Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí

Inés . Matilde Vera Molina, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí

Profesora e Investigadora. Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí

Juan Francisco Beltrán Valdivieso, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

Doctor en Medicina. Profesor e Investigador. Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja

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Published

2023-10-11

How to Cite

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Fabelo Roche JR, Rodríguez Quintana T, Iglesias Moré S, Salazar Guerra YI, Vera Molina I . M, Beltrán Valdivieso JF. Biomedical and Psychosocial Research with Community Approach in Ecuador. Rev Cubana Med [Internet]. 2023 Oct. 11 [cited 2025 Feb. 6];62(4). Available from: https://revmedicina.sld.cu/index.php/med/article/view/3303

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Vol. 62 No. 4 (2023): octubre-diciembre

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Original articles

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