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Introduction: Glaucoma is a disease that affects the eye and at the same time the injury as well as the optic nerve and the retina, related to the increase in intraocular pressure. The detection of adequate treatment helps to offer a better quality of life to the patient. Objective: To compare the postoperative intraocular pressure between the trabeculectomy and the Ahmed valve shunt in patients with primary open angle glaucoma of the Central Military Hospital from January 2017 to January 2018. Material and method: It is an observational, descriptive and retrospective study, patients diagnosed with glaucoma. his electronic clinical records, using the R program version 3.4.4 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria). Results: A total of 100 patients were identified during the study period. The patients present an age between 32 and 93 years. 35% of the patients underwent a trabeculectomy and the remaining 65% underwent a bypass with the Ahmed valve where a greater reduction was observed with the Ahmed valve in patients with higher presurgical pressure. Conclusions: We can conclude that the derivation with the Ahmed valve results in better postoperative results, which are observed after the second follow-up visit, so this technique brings better results to the IOP management of patients who require treatment. surgical, a The work is not related to the use of a less invasive technique. Likewise, trabeculectomy better regulates intraocular pressures in those patients who do not have such an increase in IOP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resilience is the ability to cope and adapt to stressful situations that a person may experience. This ability can be expressed through several strategies such as optimism, perseverance, creativity, and positive growth from adversity. Considering the few studies on this subject in the Latin American context and, therefore, the difficulties in evaluating resilient strategies in adults, this research considered to analyze the psychometric characteristics of the Brief Resilient Strategies Scale (BRCS). This study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the "Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS)" in the Colombian adult population. The sample consisted of 456 Colombian adults (41.7 % men and 58.3 % women) between 18 and 86 years old (M = 46.99). The reliability coefficient for the total score of the two BRCS subscales was .77. The construct validity was confirmed by goodness of fit results for applying a one-factor model to the scale and the correlation between the four items, confirming the structure of the model proposed by Sinclair y Wallston (2004), the initial solution of a factor was confirmed, with the same items loading the same factor and with factorial weights greater than .3. Likewise, all the values of the goodness of fit indices are within the accepted ranges for a good fit of the model. That is, the data fit the factorial model well. The concurrent validity was analyzed with measures of religious coping and type D personality. Positive correlations of the BRCS scale were found with positive religious coping of the RCOPE, indicating that a greater resilience, more expression of a sense of spirituality. In the same way, the BRCS scale correlates with the DS-14 scale, indicating that a greater resilience, less tendency to experience negative emotions such as dysphoria, tension, worry, irritability, and anger more extensively over time. In addition, the correlations indicated that a higher resilience, lower vulnerability to psychological stress with experiences of strong negative emotions and inhibition of their expression in interaction with other people. The results of the criterion validity suggest that people who use resilient strategies and religious coping are protective factors for the physical and mental health of the adult population, in such a way that people with higher levels of resilience may have a greater expression of a sense spiritual. Likewise, the most resilient subjects use variables such as satisfaction with life, humor, perceived personal competence, optimism, among others, indicative of a heightened sense of internal coherence. Also, the subjects who demonstrated greater resilience capacity were less vulnerable to experiencing negative affect and social inhibition. In general terms, these results suggest that the use of resilient strategies is related to constructs that are theoretically expected from a clinical and mental health perspective. The results show significant correlations between resilience and positive religious coping, acceptable internal reliability indices and internal consistency given the confirmatory factor analysis indices. An item discrimination analysis was performed through the biserial correlation coefficient, the correlations of the item with the total scale have an excellent level of discrimination, with values between .740 and .807. For data analysis, IBM SPSS Software®, Version 25, the R for Statistical Computing program (R Project, 2019) and LISREL 8.80 was used. The evidence suggests that the BRCS scale is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing resilience capacity in Colombian adults. In general, it was found that the BRCS has good psychometric properties in the various countries where it has been evaluated, for all the population groups analyzed, with only significant differences between men and women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study is presented on the social skills and teamwork techniques that should be possessed by data journalists, professionals who are at the crossroad of journalism, library and information science, and statistical computing. The results indicate that (a) although the majority of the undergraduate programmes in journalism envisage teamwork as a basic skill, it still is not taught in any specific module, not even as part of the subject matter of the discipline Data Journalism; (b) despite journalism students have an open and positive attitude towards teamwork, they perceive that individualism and competition are more frequent than collaboration among them. In view of these results, a series of keys to the teaching and learning of teamwork techniques are proposed for training future data journalists in collaborative work in multidisciplinary groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]