Browsing by Author "Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro"

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    Burnout syndrome in the nursing staff from arequipa [Síndrome de burnout en personal de enfermería de arequipa]
    (Editorial Ciencias Medicas, 2016) Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro; Muñoz del Carpio, Toia Agueda
    Objective: To analyze the symptoms of the burnout syndrome in nurses. Methods: Correlational study conducted in a sample of 47 nurses from Arequipa city. Maslach´s Burnout Inventory for human service professions and statistical tests for correlations and comparisons of variables were used. Results: In the group, 21.3% of female nurses presented with severe emotional exhaustion and low personal performance indexes whereas 29.8% had high level of depersonalization. The correlations indicated that the burnout syndrome, the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were all positively related (p< 0.01). Additionally, the variance analysis showed significant differences in the global scoring of the syndrome depending on the number of years worked at the service. Conclusions: The studied nurses present high levels of burnout syndrome and mainly those who have been working longer at the service or who have been working less than five years. © 2016, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.
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    Family profile in adolescents with depressive symptomatology in Arequipa City (Peru) [Perfil familiar de adolescentes con sintomatología depresiva en la ciudad de Arequipa, Perú]
    (Sociedad de Neurologia Psiquiatria y Neurocirugia, 2018) Rivera Calcina, Renzo; Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro; Cahuana Cuentas, Milagros
    Introduction: The depression in teenagers is a current theme nowadays, although, there are few clinical studies focused on this population in Peru. In this work we made a descriptive analysis about the depressive symptomatology in adolescents from Arequipa City, according to certain family variables. Method: This is an associative study, which includes a sample of 1225 teenagers among 11 to 18 years old with an average age of 14, who came from public and private high schools around the city. Beck's Depression Inventory, Family Topics Questionnaire, and some questions about domestic violence and alcohol consumption, were applied to the teenagers. Results: We found an important percentage (41.4%) of teenagers who have some levels of depressive symptomatology according to psychometrical criteria, and some factor, such as parental conflict, alcohol consumption and violence from parents to children have significant differences, taking the depression levels as comparative criteria. Conclusions: We conclude that certain features of family disfunctionality like interparental conflict, the alcohol consumption by parents and the parental violence, are associated with depressive symptomatology in teenagers. © 2018 Revista Chilena de Neuro-Psiquiatria. All rights reserved.
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    Initial psychometric evidence of a brief measure of cancer worry [Evidencias psicométricas iniciales de una medida breve sobre preocu-pación por el cáncer]
    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2018) Caycho Rodríguez, Tomás; Ventura León, José; Noe Grijalva, Martín; Barboza Palomino, Miguel; Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro; Reyes Bossio, Mario; Rojas Jara, Claudio
    Objective: The cancer worry is associated with preventive behaviors for the detection of this disease; However, there is no instrument with evidence of validity and reliability to measure this construct in Latin American countries, including Peru. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the evidence of validity based on the internal structure and reliability of the Cancer Worry Scale (CWS) in a sample of people without cancer diagnosis with a family history of cancer. Method: It counted with the participation of 215 healthy people with a family history of cancer who attended the outpatient service of two public and private health institutions in the city of Chimbote with an average age of 42.10 years (SD = 14.05). For the collection of information, an ad hoc sociodemographic record and the Cancer Worry Scale were used. Results: The one-dimensional model presented a good fit of the data (SB?2 (8) = 14.39, SB ?2 / df = 1.79, CFI = 0.991, SRMR = 0.025, RMSEA = 0.061 [IC90%: 0.000-0.111], AIC = 47.701) and adequate reliability (? corrected = 0.90; IC95%: 0.88-0.92). Conclusion: It is concluded that the CWS presents adequate psychometric properties, being a measure that provides valid and reliable interpretations of the cáncer worry in the peruvian context. © 2018, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. All rights reserved.
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    Motives of disuse of pedestrian bridges in Arequipa [Motivos del desuso de puentes peatonales en Arequipa]
    (Scopus, 2012) Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro
    Objective: to find out the causes of disuse of pedestrian bridges in Arequipa city. Methods: descriptive study based on a survey gathering data on age, gender level of education, origin and experience of previous accidents. A non-probabilistic sampling was performed through quota sampling technique. Three hundred and sixty pedestrians (270 males and 90 females), who moved along pathways next to three city bridges such as Avenida Venezuela bridge, Avenida Alcides Carriion bridge and Avenida Ejercito bridge, were studied. Results: average age of the sample was 31.97 years, the level of education did not influence the use of bridges. Lack of time, sloth and the fear for attacks and robbery were the most frequent motives marked by pedestrians as causes for ignoring the pedestrian bridges. Conclusions: it is necessary to take measures in terms of security and surveillance at bridges, as well as launching awareness-raising campaigns that provide information to pedestrians on the possible risks of wrongly crossing the streets and of breaking the law.
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    Occupational stress of workers analyzed from an approach to vital events [Estrés laboral en trabajadores desde el enfoque de los sucesos vitales]
    (Scopus, 2012) Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro
    Objectives: to identify the most common vital events related to the stress suffered by the workers of a company located in Arequipa. Methods: a sample of 100 male workers from a mining assistance and maintenance company was used. They belonged to three professional groups, that is, engineers, managers and mechanics aged 19 to 55 years. Holmes and Rahe's social readjustment evaluation scale was used. Results: the most frequent vital events were changes in the feeding and sleeping habits, in the living conditions, in the economic status and a great personal performance. Additionally, the managers pointed out the change of responsibilities at work, whereas the engineers mentioned marriage and vacations. The latter were the ones that had the highest stress scores. Conclusions: the most frequent stress-related vital events found in the sample of male workers were mainly of economic and working type. The engineers showed higher level of stress than the mechanics and the managers, due to deep crisis in their lives.
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    Phrenology and its implications: Brief history about a forgotten issue [La frenología y sus implicancias: Un poco de historia sobre un tema olvidado]
    (Sociedad de Neurologia Psiquiatria y Neurocirugia, 2018) Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro
    This article makes a brief historical review of the phrenology, or doctrine of the brain, which was created by Franz Joseph Gall and developed by Johan Caspar Spurzheim and George Combe. Phrenology was spread by various countries like France and England, but it was in the United States, where it reached a high level of diffusion through the foundation of phrenological societies and journal. Moreover, although their postulates were wrong, it is an important antecedent of applied psychology, which meant the passage of metaphysical explanations to the search of the neurophysiological foundations of human behavior. In that sense, phrenology has a well-earned place in the history of psychology and neuroscience in general, which deserves to be recognized with the value that corresponds to it. © 2018 Sociedad de Neurologia Psiquiatria y Neurocirugia. All rights reserved.
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    Psychometric evidence of a brief measure of resilience in non-institutionalized Peruvian older adults [Evidencias psicométricas de una medida breve de resiliencia en adultos mayores peruanos no institucionalizados]
    (Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Madrid, 2018) Caycho Rodríguez, Tomás; Ventura León, José; García Cadena, Cirilo; Tomás, José; Domínguez Vergara, Julio; Lepoldo, Daniel; Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro
    Resilience is understood as the domain of personal resources and contextual factors that allow for a successful coping and enhance positive adaptation to the different stressors during the lifespan, thereby being important for a healthy and successful aging. Nowadays, several brief instruments have been developed to measure resilience, such as the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), an instrument that measures the ability of people to confront stress in an adaptive way. In this vein, the study provides evidence of the validity and reliability of the BRCS in non-institutionalized older adults in Peru. Two hundred thirty-six elderly people of both genders, 78.4% women and 21.6% men, with a mean age of 72.8 years (SD = 6.90), who answered the Spanish version of the BRCS and other scales to measure satisfaction with life, humor as coping, and depression. Confirmatory factor analysis corroborates the one-dimensional structure of the BRCS. The coefficients of internal consistency, Chronbach’s alpha and omega, indicated an adequate reliability of the BRCS. Both the adjustment indices of the model and the values of the coefficients of reliability were higher compared to those reported in the literature. The BRCS showed positive and significant correlations with satisfaction with life and humor as coping (p < .01). Likewise, negative and significant correlations were observed with depression (p < .01). The results show that the BRCS has proved valid and reliable, supporting its use as a short measure of resilience in older Peruvians. © 2018 Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid.
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    Psychopathological characteristics in prisoners from Socabaya Penitentiary, Arequipa (Peru) [Características psicopatológicas en los reclusos del Penal de Socabaya de Arequipa (Perú)]
    (Elsevier Doyma, 2016) Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro; Canales, Fiorella; De la Torre, Nelani
    The present research analyzes some clinical features in a group of 78 prisoners at Socabaya Penitentiary from Arequipa, by using Multifasic Personality Inventory MINI MULT. Results point to several psychopathological characteristics, factorized in three profiles: anxious, psychopath, and depressed. © 2015 Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid.
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    Validity and factorial invariance of a brief measure of satisfaction with family life [Validez e invarianza factorial de una medida breve de Satisfacción con la Vida Familiar]
    (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2018) Caycho Rodríguez, Tomás; Ventura León, José; Barboza Palomino, Miguel; Reyes Bossio, Mario; Arias Gallegos, Walter Lizandro; García Cadena, Cirilo; Cabrera Orosco, Isabel; Ayala, Jonathan; Morgado Gallardo, Katherine; Huamani Cahua, Julio Cesar
    Se examinó la estructura factorial, la confiabilidad, la validez convergente y discriminante, y la invarianza factorial por sexo, de la Satisfaction with Family Life Scale (SWFLS). Los participantes fueron 804 estudiantes de primaria y secundaria de escuelas privadas de Lima, con un promedio de edad de 13.5 años (DE = 1.6). Los resultados confirman la estructura unidimensional de la escala (?2 = 3.49, df = 5, p = 0.63; ?2/df = 0.69; GFI = 0.998; CFI = 1; NFI = 0.998; RMSEA = 0 [IC90% 0, 0.038] y SRMR = 0.007), la invarianza factorial por sexo y una consistencia interna adecuada (? = 0.84; ? = 0.84; H = 0.85). Se obtuvieron evidencias satisfactorias de validez convergente y discriminante de las SWFLS con medidas de funcionalidad familiar, bienestar subjetivo y depresión. En conclusión, la SWFLS presenta excelentes propiedades psicométricas para medir la satisfacción con la vida familiar en escolares limeños. © 2018 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.