Especialidad en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria

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    "Autopercepción y percepción familiar de la calidad de vida del adulto mayor. ER12, la Victoria, 2015-2016"
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato-Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud-Dirección de Posgrado, 2016-11-01) Borja Tapia, Patricia Elisabeth Dra.; Creagh Bandera. Idalberto Dr Esp.,
    Nowadays the whole world is experiencing a new phenomenon, which is the phenomenon of demographic transition, where the population of the elderly has increased considerably, according to the World Health Organization that in the year 2000 there were approximately 600 million Old adults, a figure that would double by 2025, all this has been achieved thanks to technological and scientific advances that have reduced mortality rates and increasing life expectancy, so there are more vulnerable individuals, with their own requirements And with little social consideration what would determine their quality of life. Ecuador is also experiencing this process without being the exception the Parish Victoria. In this context the present study whose general objective was performed. Determine the quality of life of the elderly from self-perception and the perception of the family in the ER 12 Victory in 2015-2016. A qualitative and quantitative approach was maintained, it was a descriptive study cross-sectional descriptive study yielded information as older adults perceive their quality of life and how they perceive their families. We worked with 70 older adults and 70 family, using the instrument WHOQOL-BREF developed by OMS with 26 questions, which describes the quality of life in relation to social, biological, physical and psychological determinants studied during 2016. SPSS20program was used with frequency measurements, standard deviation, and chi square. Results: the average age was 70 years. The 60% (42) of seniors reported perceive their quality of life as average and 40% (28) perceived as bad, while 57.1% refer families (40 ) for average quality of life and 41.5% (29) low. According satisfaction with their health 30% will answered satisfactorily, however little dissatisfied 34.3% and 25.7% very dissatisfied, the best results were men, married primary school level and living with their partners.
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    Factores asociados para el aparecimiento de la osteoartrosis de mano en adultos mayores
    (Universdidad Técnica de Ambato/Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud/Centro de posgrados, 2021-04-01) Tisalema Tipán, Henri Darwin Md.; Borja Tapia, Patricia Elisabeth Dra.
    The objective of the present investigation is to know the factors associated with the manifestation of osteoarthritis of the hand in the elderly population of the Panzaleo Health Center, the study has a mixed investigation, that is, it has a qualitative and quantitative approach with a concurrent triangulation design and a documentary bibliographic and field research modality. The study sample is comprised of 117 older adults between 65 and 90 years of age, a COPCORD questionnaire was applied, the data were processed and tabulated in Microsoft Excel, on the other hand, for the hypothesis testing, the statistical software was considered. SPSS, Pearson's correlation coefficient was applied. Among the main results is that among the factors associated with the manifestation of the disease are comorbidities such as diabetes, obesity, aspects such as age, female gender (65.81%), work history such as working or having worked in activities where exercise is carried out (85.47 %) or repetition of activities (64.10%) and among the prevalence is that 100% of those evaluated suffer from osteoarthritis of the hand. It is concluded that there is a presence of associated factors such as obesity, diabetes, age because the range of manifestation ranges from 65 years onwards, there is a predominance of the female gender, also, work history was considered an important factor because the activities that they carry out at present and that they carried out previously influence the manifestation of the disease, also, there is a history of rheumatic diseases in the family