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The pharmaceutical industry is the maximum responsible for the protection of the health of users by being able to detect early some unexpected manifestations that would alter the risk-benefit balance in the application of a product to the population. The AICA Laboratories Company recently registered a new homeopathic medicine PrevengHo® Vir, which is being used by Cuban Public Health in the fight against COVID-19. Based on the fact that pharmacovigilance is a shared activity between health personnel, the National Regulatory Authority, the pharmaceutical industry and patients and considering the framework of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the study will be carried out post-marketing of the PrevengHo® Vir product; The objective of this study is to validate an online questionnaire by consulting a specialist as an alternative that facilitates the post-marketing study of PrevengHo® Vir, which is manufactured in the Julio Trigo UEB, belonging to the AICA Laboratories Company of BioCubaFarma. The experiential method is used to characterize the current state of Pharmacovigilance in the company. The systematization, the documentary analysis for the proposal of the content of the questionnaire and the consultation of specialists to assess the viability of the proposed questionnaire, from the statistics, the non-parametric Chi-square test of goodness of fit (mode) was applied to know the level of significance of the opinion of the specialists. Results: the online questionnaire proposed and its viability validated by specialists' criteria will allow the collection of information on the safety of the use of PrevengHo® Vir. The validation by the specialists of the online questionnaire will allow its subsequent application for the constant evaluation of this product from the perspective of people, the community and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An online questionnaire of social skills for an academic context was created for secondary public-school students. Two studies were carried out. In the first (583 participants) a questionnaire was constructed based on a structure proposed by Del-Prette, Del-Prette and Mendes (1998), and its reliability and validity based on content, structure and external criteria were assessed. In the second study, the stability of the resulting structure was tested and its reliability was estimated. It was obtained a questionnaire with adequate psychometric properties for descriptive uses, with a structure of three factors: Assertiveness, Conversation and Self-regulation. In the light of these results, the dimensionality of social skills is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]