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For patients with fibromyalgia it is important to seek strategies from science that enable them to have a better quality of life. In the present article, the evaluation of the quality of life of patients with fibromyalgia, during a physical exercise program in the community, is expressed. For this purpose, research methods and techniques were used, which allowed its logical development. Within the use of theoretical methods, historical-logical, analytical-synthetic and inductive-deductive methods were used. Among the empirical methods and techniques, observation, interview, survey and documentary review were used. Descriptive statistics were also used; mean percentage calculation and standard deviation; as well as inferential statistics; used for the comparison of related samples by means of the Wilcoxon test. As a result of the research process, significant differences are expressed in the sample studied with a significance level of p<0.005. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the life and political thought of the Afro-Cuban, communist, feminist activist and lawmaker Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa and her historical context. The article builds on the existing literature by using new periodical and archival sources from institutional collections of communist organizations and personal correspondence with feminist leaders. The paper's main objectives are the following. First, to demonstrate that Sánchez Mastrapa simultaneously engaged with Afro-Cuban, feminist, and communist organizations. Second, to illuminate how these platforms offered a productive space for some women activists like Sánchez Mastrapa to conceptualize a simultaneous critique of racism, capitalism, and patriarchy. And third, to analyze how she used these institutional platforms to articulate an early intersectional feminism as part of a growing transnational left-wing movement fighting in favor of Black, poor, women workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]