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Objective: To determine the overall survival of patients on hemodialysis and prognostic factors associated. Methods: A retrospective cohort of patients who entered a chronic hemodialysis program at the Centro Nacional de Salud Renal of EsSALUD from 1994 and 2014. A total of 1789 patients were included, and data was gathered from the SIG version 2.0, which stores charts since 1994. The survival of the cohort and prognostic factors were evaluated. Results: Mean age was 49.7 ± 17.4 years; 779 (43.5%) were females; 393 (22%) were diabetics, and 592 (33.2%) had blood hypertension; 1408 (83%) had an arterio-venous fistula; 147 (8.16%) had positive serology for hepatitis C; 999 (55.84%) were admitted from 1994 to 2003 and 790 (44,16%) from 2003 to 2014. Survival of the cohort did not change by sex, presence of hypertension, serology at admission, or decade of admission. Multivariate analysis identified the age group above 50 years [HR: 3.72 (IC95%: 3.07 -- 4.50) p = 0.000] and use of catheters at admission to the chronic dialysis program [HR: 1.37 (IC95%: 1.07 -- 1.76): p = 0.010] as independent factors for lower survival. Conclusions: The survival was not affected by the decade of admission but by advanced age and use of catheters in the 20-year follow-up period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to evaluate the preliminary psychometric properties of four instruments related to the measures of "Determinants of Success in Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) in Institutions of Higher Education (HEI´s)". The sample was N = 150 participants, made up of academics, administrators, and researchers from Latin American HEIs. The factorial composition was estimated using unweighted ordinal least squares extraction with direct oblimin rotation and reliability estimation. It was found that the instruments have a structure consistent with the theory (α> 0,90), concluding about their usability and applicability to collect data regarding the determinants of success in KMS in HEI´s. As a result, four valid and reliable instruments were obtained, whose components represent the proposed constructs and have high internal consistency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El artículo discurre sobre la relación entre el coaching y la psicoterapia en los casos de la depresión y los problemas emocionales. El autor comenta sobre los métodos y modelos de intervención de ayuda profesional. También se considera la importancia de este tipo de ayuda en la curación y el crecimiento personal.

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El artículo analiza lo que es la inteligencia emocional y la define como la habilidad de percibir y expresar emociones para entender las propias y las del prójimo. El psicólogo Howard Gardner creó el concepto, pero fue propuesta por los psicólogos Peter Salovey y John D. Mayer en 1997. El artículo sugiere que las escuelas de gerencia deben crear programas pedagógicos que fomenten ésta entre líderes.

From a scientific perspective, creativity reveals a person’s capacity to develop a flow of ideas that may be turned into reality. Ultimately, all innovation implies an invention; but not all inventions necessarily lead to innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an overview of the disciplinary and professional field of Psychology, the two positions, one that stands up for the unification of Psychology, and the other that assumes that its specialization is an inevitable outcome are critically analyzed. Then, an alternative position related to the unity of psychology, based on the professional ethics is proposed. It is aimed at narrowing the distance between both positions. The implications of this point of view are discussed, and the relevance of this discipline in the social and community field is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work studied the effect of a program of comprehension of texts with a moral content in the structures of moral reasoning of students of the first year of the Diversified Cycle at a private school in Caracas. The working hypothesis arose from a reading of Kohlberg's model of moral development (1992) and sought relationships between this and the models of development of the structures of thought through the analysis of text structure, presupposed in the findings following Narvaez (1999) on the conditional relation between the levels of cognitive development and the structures of moral reasoning that are activated by a reading of a text high on moral content. A quasi-experimental design of a non-equivalent control group was applied that included an experimental group and a control group selected non-randomly. The sample was made up of 86 participants of both sexes with an average age of 16.5 years. The program that the experimental group received was structured on the basis of cognitive and metacognitive strategies of identification of the macro-structure of the text, the recognition of main ideas, the following of thematic progression, the graphic representation of the text and the reading plan, taught through direct methods of instruction. This set of strategies was used not only to enhance comprehension but also to create a climate of analysis and discussion of the most important aspects of text content. A pre-test and post-test on reading comprehension were carried out using non-standardized instruments and the development of moral judgment was made applying the DIT (Defining Issues Test). The results of the post-test showed significant differences in text comprehension in favor of the experimental group but the levels of moral judgment showed minimal differences between the pre- and the post-text, both for the experimental and the control group. Such findings suggest that the aims of improving text comprehension are pertinent also for moral education but to enhance the development of a hierarchy of levels of moral judgment as described by Kohlberg, cognitive and metacognitive strategies of reading comprehension are not sufficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Woman, 14 year old from San Martin (Peru), was admitted to hospital with a history of three months of dyspnea, pallor and hyporexia, and decreased urine volume in the last month. Two weeks before his admission presented overall headache, nausea and vomiting. She went to his local hospital where indicated treatment with ampicillin and gentamicin, on suspicion of acute pyelonephritis; but not observe improvement was transferred to our hospital. There were no important personal or family history, except her parents were consanguineous. On physical examination we found pallor, bilateral opacities in the lens, bilateral hearing loss and flapping. Laboratory tests showed anemia and azotemia (creatinine 15 mg/dL and urea 233 mg/dL). Urianalysis revealed tubular abnormalities, proteinuria and hematuria. Renal ultrasonography showed small kidneys. Ocular examination revealed nuclear polar cataract in her right eye and total cataract in the left eye. Audiometry revealed bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The level of moral development in a sampled of convicts from West Venezuela is presented. The study was carried out by means of Defining Issues Test (DIT) evaluation. The sample includes 50 persons between 19 and 55 years old (M = 34,33 y DT = 8,76), out of them 39 were males (average age 33,74), DT=8,24) an 11 were females (average age 35,91, DT=10,67). All of them were beneficiaries of alternatives formulas of their respective sentences such as social work, parole or conditional suspension of sentences and following the corresponding process or rehabilitation out of prisons. This sample registered a moral principles index of 19,67 and a non-relevant answers index of 12,07 as well as fourth moral developmental stage of 41,3 which are unusually high. The results suggest that there is not a statistically significant difference in the pattern of moral development depending on sex, age, or institution for sentenced fulfillment. However, the unusual high pattern of answers and the inverse correspondence between the duration of sentences and the resulting level of moral principles suggest that the sample behaves in a way, which is different from what is expected in no-out-law samples. Findings and implications are discused. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]