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COVID-19 disease was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The new coronavirus was recognized for its dangerousness, high level of contagion and spreading among the population. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (2020) declared the pandemic. The purpose was to document and analyze the life experiences of a group of researchers facing risk and disaster during the COVID-19 pandemic in a year of confinement. These life experiences were systematized through a critical interdisciplinary individual and collective process of learning and co-construction. A qualitative methodology was used from an interpretative perspective using the self-report survey and the focus group. The theoretical references to analyze the experiences were Benjamin (1933/1999), De Alba et al. (2016), Dewey (2002), Díaz (1997), Dubet (2011), Hochschild (1979), Larrosa (2006), and Llanos (2017) To review the data, discourse analysis was used and mental maps and narrative fragments of self-reports were used as instruments to represent said data. Life experiences refer to 292 descriptive words. Most frequently: disaster, government, death, pandemic, and risk. The researchers' experience during the pandemic had negative and positive consequences on a personal and family level. Psychological repercussions were manifested. The negative aspect of this experience was triggered by ignorance of the disease, danger, and loss of control over the situation. Changes and adjustments in family life, work, routines, relationships, loss of mobility, freedoms, and human contact, adapting and surviving, contradictions by authorities, institutional inability, and lack of knowledge to face the epidemic were highlighted. The significant and positive aspects were manifested at a personal and family level, in terms of the meaning of life, the value of social relationships and the relationship with nature, the skills and the learning identified. This work contributes to the understanding of risk and disaster from comprehensive perspectives and multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches that include the experiences of the subjects. Risk is an axis that articulates knowledge, experience and interdisciplinarity, which allows new ways of generating changes in behavior and more comprehensive visions to coexist with risk with better preparation and with less loss and damage. This work contributes to the understanding of risk and disaster from comprehensive perspectives and multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches that include the experiences of the subjects. This work contributes to the understanding of risk and disaster from comprehensive perspectives and multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches that include the subjects' experiences. Emotional experiences during the pandemic are highly evident. Recognizing the effect that these emotional experiences have on people's health, it is necessary to generate greater personal and social capacities and tools to manage them and to anticipate physical and mental illnesses and premature deaths. The experience of the pandemic accentuated the preponderance of human behavior during the disaster, its consequences, and its management. Preparedness and behavior change are required to support the resilience of individuals and communities in the face of disasters. Likewise, it is imperative to acknowledge the importance of human behavior to achieve a culture of life, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and community health, risk prevention and disaster preparedness. The lifestyles and human behaviors promoted in modern capitalist societies (individualism, consumerism, banality, a separation from nature, nihilism, among others), as this pandemic has confirmed, are unsustainable for maintaining health and achieving a social relationship of harmony and respect with nature, coexistence, cooperation, restoration and balance of processes and support to guarantee the various dimensions of health. Gaining experience means knowing and deciding what to stop doing in everyday life in order to avoid new disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To analyze factors related to nutrition disorders about undernutrition and overnutrition in older people with the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), follow-up survey in 2018. Materials and methods. Cross-sectional relationships between social determinants, health relative factors and stressful life events with models for undernutrition and overnutrition among older people. Data were subjected to descriptive analysis and simple and multiple logistic regression models. Results. A total of 4 587 old people, undernutrition was 16% and relationship was found with =80 years, no partner, no schooling, overestimation of body mass index (BMI), motor difficulty, instrumental functional dependence, hospitalization in a previous year, and falls in the last two years, self-report prehensile strength of hand, report of a disaster affecting housing or an accident affecting health. The overnutrition was 43.6% and was related to women, aged 60 to 79, have =3 diseases, somatic symptoms, physical inactivity and underestimate their BMI. Conclusions. The factors related to nutrition disorders due to undernutrition or overnutrition are important interventions areas on aging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Nursing care seeks the integrity of the person in all spheres of development and thus improves quality of life. Objective: To know the experience of women who are in the climacteric stage and who live in a rural area of the municipality of Asientos, Aguascalientes. Methodology: Qualitative study with Heiddeger's hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Seven women participated. Seven phenomenological interviews were conducted for the collection of information to guarantee the quality of the study. Results: The interviews lasted approximately 40 minutes. Nine units of meaning were obtained, which were divided into two groups: ontic and ontological. The ontic meaning units included: ignorance of climacteric as a stage of life, distress in climacteric and medical care during climacteric. The other group includes the ontological meaning units: sexual desire in darkness, absence of a partner, the family world and the climacteric period, transcendence in the climacteric period, and suffering in the climacteric period. Conclusion: Climacteric women have an influence on the sociocultural environment, repetitive patterns and scarce knowledge of the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research shows that LGBT+ people experience stressful life events (SLE) because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity (i.e., discrimination, physical or sexual abuse, family rejection, etc.). The objective of this study is to analyze the risk of homelessness from the SLE of LGBT+ homeless people. For the identification of the perceived SLE, an ad hoc instrument has been built based on the adaptation and extension of various existing instruments. A meta-analysis is carried out using a multivariable multinomial logistic regression model that gets the probability of low, medium, high and extreme risk of homelessness and to identify the probability of risk in the people surveyed based on the SVE variables and their sociodemographic profile. Among the most relevant results, it stands out that the only statistically significant gender identity was a trans woman, specifically in the low risk of homelessness. The greater the risk of homelessness (high and extreme), the people surveyed present greater mental health problems (depression, suicide attempts, etc.). For this reason, the evaluation from the Social Work of the SLE of vulnerable LGBT+ people could be an effective approach for the prevention of their homelessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To assess the factorial structure and convergent and divergent validity of the Columbia Suicide Severity Scale (CSSRS) and the Questionnaire of Stressful Life Events (SLE) in a sample of Mexican women and to analyze the association between stressful life events (SLE) and suicidal behavior (SB) in Mexican women during the Covid-19 pandemic. Materials and methods. Data from 2 398 women who participated in a multicenter study were used. The study was carried out in Mexico between May and October 2021. The information was collected through an online questionnaire that included the CSSRS and the SLE. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed to assess the goodness of fit of both questionnaires. Results. The final model showed an association between CB and SLE and identified violence as the central variable.The model had a good fit (CFI=0.950, IFI=0.950, MFI=0.975, RMSEA=0.031, CI RMSEA=0.026- 0.036). Conclusions. The Covid-19 pandemic evidenced the need to create and implement strategies to promote mental health care, reduce exposure to violence, and facilitate mourning processes to prevent SB in Mexican women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Self-injurious behavior is extremely prevalent in the adolescent population in Spain, particularly in adolescents with psychiatric pathology, which may link to suicidal ideation and suicide. To further investigate prevention strategies, it is necessary to examine associated risk factors. Exposure to adverse life events, having a perfectionist or impulsive personality, psychiatric pathology, depressive symptoms, and inadequate alcohol consumption are all known to increase risks. This study explores the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with cutting in adolescents with psychiatric pathology. Methods: An observational, cross-sectional study with an opportunistic sampling was conducted. Data were collected with questionnaires from a total of 40 patients attending the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit (USMIJ) of the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves (HUVN) in Granada. Results: 55% of the adolescents presented self-injurious behaviors, mainly cutting (81.8%) on arms and wrists, with the stated aim of relieving emotional distress (71.4%). No significant differences were found between patients with and without self-injury regarding psychiatric diagnosis, alcohol consumption, history of abuse or family support; but there were significant differences concerning the presence of depressive symptoms, previous suicide attempts and suicidal ideation. Higher suicide risk was observed in patients with cutting than among those with other types of self-injury. Conclusions: Most of the adolescents presented self-injury by cutting their arms and wrists and did so to relieve emotional distress. Depressive symptoms, previous suicide attempts and the presence of suicidal ideation were all associated with self-injury, while patients with cutting had a higher risk of suicide. These results underline the importance of preventing self-injury, and specifically cutting, to help prevent suicide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a recently recognized entity that resembles an acute coronary syndrome. Its epidemiology has been studied in various populations around the world. The most frequent trigger is an emotional stressful event. Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics of a series of cases with TTS. Material and methods: A descriptive and retrospective study was carried out. The variables of age, gender, clinical characteristics, cardiovascular risk factors, triggering factors, biomarkers, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and angiographic findings in the clinical records of a group of cases of patients with TTS were evaluated. Results: 19 cases of TTS were included. There were 16 women and 3 men, the average age was 62 ± 14 years; the main cardiovascular risk factor was sedentary lifestyle in 13 cases. The emotional trigger was present in most cases. The most frequent symptom was chest pain, eight cases presented data of shoCKP and heart failure. The most common variant by echocardiography was apical ballooning in 79%, as well as by ventriculography. The most common complication was cardiogenic shoCKP. Conclusions: The clinical characteristics of our population are like those previously described in the literature. TTS is a transient and reversible cardiomyopathy with a good prognosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Research that addresses perspectives and meanings of teachers about coping with student failure is limited. The purpose of this article is to analyze the social representations that CECyTE teachers in Baja California have about coping with school failure and compare the coping strategies for school failure promoted by this sector based on social insertions such as age, gender, background, and professional update path. From a qualitative approach, a questionnaire of free association of words was applied. The results show that coping with stressful academic events is dynamic and allows strategies to change based on continuous reassessment. Teachers highlighted two main coping strategies: At the institutional level, the search for social support characterized by channeling students to school support services, and at the individual level, directive-revaluation coping, undertaking continuous training processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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People with diabetes are at high risk of requiring surgical intervention throughout their lives, and of perioperative complications in case of poor metabolic control. Hospitalization represents a stressful event that, together with other factors associated with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, leads to a deterioration in the nutritional status of the patients. An association between poor nutritional status and adverse outcomes in surgical patients has been observed. This article describes the results of the expert consensus and the responses of the panelists on the nutritional management in routine clinical practice of patients with diabetes/hyperglycemia hospitalized (non-critically ill) in the perioperative setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The main aim of the study has been to analyze the influence of sexism, romantic myths and adverse life events in gender-based violence. Method: The research is based on a quantitative methodological strategy. The sample is made up of 121 male partner aggressors who were part of a social reintegration program in a penitentiary center. Results: The results show that hostile sexism, romantic myths of the idealization of love and adverse life events have a significant effect on threats, and these have it on four types of intimate partner violence (physical, sexual, emotional and psychological control). In addition, hostile sexism impacts on physical violence, and adverse life events on sexual violence. Conclusions: Social reintegration programs carried out with partner aggressors must take into account the role of some legitimizing beliefs and adverse life events that are associated with violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Adapting by making meaning of adverse life situations such as unavoidable losses and other stressful events throughout life is crucial for people to maintain their physical and mental well-being. Holland et al. (2010, 2014) created and validated two versions -long and short- of a scale to assess the degree of adaptation of an individual to a loss or a stressful event. To adapt and validate the Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale-Short Form (ISLES-SF) to Mexican Spanish, an instrumental study was carried out. In the exploratory factorial analysis, the sample consisted of 227 participants (M = 19.51, SD = 1.67) and in the confirmatory factorial analysis, 550 participated (M = 19.86, SD = 3.38). Each factorial analysis corroborated the bifactorial structure, with a good fit of the model, satisfactory internal reliability, and good construct and instrumental validity, like the original scale validations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the past years, psychopathology has frequently been represented as a complex system, where psychiatric symptoms are causally interconnected in a network architecture. The network theory of psychopathology has led to more than 300 novel publications, academic courses, methodology for estimating novel models, and freely available software. However, despite the success of this novel research avenue, all relevant information has mostly been published in English. This paper translates the network theory of psychopathology and its model, together with its relevance for research and clinical practice of psychology and psychiatry, to the Spanish language. To serve the dissemination of this theory, this paper serves as an introductory paper for Spanish scholars, for example, as a starting point to learn more about the approach or for academic courses. The main idea of the network theory of psychopathology is that the activation of one clinical symptom in the network leads to the activation of a neighboring symptom. If symptoms are strongly connected with each other, for example, excessive worry and insomnia, they are more likely to be in the same state, meaning that if a person faces a stressful life event such as losing one's job, the activation of the symptom excessive worry will increase the probability they will also suffer from insomnia. In this way, a whole symptom activation pattern develops from which mental disorders emerge. Mental disorders are conceived as stable states of strongly connected symptom networks, allowing for a common explanatory model for multiple mental disorders, thereby providing a comprehensive model of psychopathology. Traditional representations of mental disorders conceptualize symptoms as merely passive indicators of latent, underlying mental disorders which act as common causes for patients' symptomatology. The network theory of psychopathology flips the explanatory and statistical model: instead of focusing on one underlying cause or underlying causes, it proposes to study the direct interactions between these symptoms. This imposes two important implications for the conceptualization of mental disorders. First, symptoms are no longer statistically exchangeable since every symptom can have a different role in the onset and development of psychopathology. Some symptoms can be more important than others in keeping the whole system "stuck" in a disordered state. Second, comorbidity is conceptualized as clustering symptoms which are connected to each other via certain "bridge symptoms". Bridge symptoms are symptoms which are attributed to two (or more) mental disorders, such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). If a person suffers from symptoms of MDD, such as loss of motivation and depressed mood, this can lead to the activation of bridge symptoms such as fatigue and concentration problems, which by themselves lead to the activation of GAD symptoms such as irritability and excessive worry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender-based violence has serious consequences for women's health and its effects are aggravated when abuse has occurred throughout the life cycle. In addition, it can develop in victims' feelings of guilt that negatively influence their mental health. The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of polyvictimization (child, intrafamily, and partner) on the development of feelings of guilt and the implications that such guilt has on psychological distress in a sample of Nicaraguan victims. The sample, with a mean age of 31.7 years (SD = 8.9), is made up of 129 victims of gender-based violence from Nicaragua, a group of difficult access that has suffered different forms of polyvictimization since childhood. For the work, the Kessler scale and the List of Stressful Life Events were used. The results show that the development of feelings of guilt is associated with the history of abuse and influences the health of the victims, who present higher levels of anxiety and depression than those who do not feel guilty. Knowing the problem allows its consideration in the intervention processes in those who have suffered gender violence and various forms of polyvictimization throughout their life cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. Suicide is an issue with a great impact on public health. For this reason, the Catalonia Suicide Risk Code (CSRC) protocol was developed in 2015. The aim of this paper is to examine the sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients for whom this protocol was activated between 2016 and 2017 in our reference population. Methodology. Retrospective descriptive study of recorded data on Suicide Risk Code of our population attended (n=246 in 2016 and n=391 in 2017) in the mental health outpatient services of the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu being attended previously in the emergency services of any of the hospitals of reference. Results. The most prevalent profile in both 2016 and 2017 was woman between 40 and 55 years of age with stressful life events. The most prevalent method used was substance abuse. Conclusions. The data suggest that the health care task should be adjusted to the highest risk profile observed in our reference population, considering stressful live events as significant risk factors which should be taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Stress in the LGB community is associated with their sexual orientation, violence or discrimination, stressful events which are different from those reported by heterosexual people. The literature reports a relationship between the level of stress and mental health problems, of greater intensity and frequency in the LGB population. Objective: The purpose was to identify stressful situations, coping strategies and associated emotions in the LGB community. Method: A descriptive study was carried out with a non-experimental cross-sectional design, through non-probabilistic sampling, with the participation of 272 men and women aged 14 to 56 years. The Questionnaire of Emotions, Stress and Coping of Vega et al. (2012). Results: Homosexual, bisexual and lesbian participants agree in first reporting situations of communicating their sexual orientation, the remaining situations are school, work and discrimination for belonging to the LGB community. Participants use action-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies in similar proportions (48 % - 50 %). Emotions associated with stressful situations are anxiety, fear, shame, guilt. In pleasant situations they also report negative emotions. Conclusions: The type of stressful situations are different in these populations because they more frequently face events related to discrimination or confrontation due to their sexual orientation. Information is provided on what and how situations that generate stress in the LGB population are coped with. It is suggested to generate cognitive behavioral interventions for emotional regulation and effective coping. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. Suicide is one of the main challenges worldwide. Every year 800,000 people die by suicide. There is evidence that life stressful events are associated to suicidal behaviour. Our aim in this case-control study is to explore their role as triggers of suicidal behaviour. Methods. This case-control study was carried out in the Department of Psychiatry of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz. The case group consists of 320 adult patients treated in the Foundation service after an attempted suicide. The control group consists of 640 adult psychiatric patients treated for any other reason. The main variable has been the suicide attempt and the independent variable has been published in the last 6 months. To measure the occurrence of a LTE in the last six months, we used the List of Threatening Experiences. Results. Having experienced a LTE was associated with a suicide attempt (RR = 1.475, 95% CI, p = 0.001). The specific LTE that showed a statistically positive association were having broken a stable relationship, having personal problems with someone close to the environment and not finding a job or suffering a serious economic crisis. Conclusions. Suffering an LTE significantly increases the risk of suicide in the following 6 months. Having broken a stable relationship is presented as the most important. More studies are needed to explore the role of LTE as precipitating factors of suicidal behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), represents a burden of care and economic, related to mortality, morbidity and its aftermath, impacting the life experience of who develops the event and his family. Objective: To understand the meaning attributed to the acute coronary event from the family perspective in a group of people residing in the department of Quindío, Colombia; to redefine behaviors that may constitute risks to the health of the family system that shares life experiences, to improve the quality of life and the integral well-being of the people. Methodology: qualitative study, with phenomenological approach; the subjects were identified by key informants, the information was collected through in-depth interviews. Results: The interpretive thematic analysis identified three distinct categories: interpretation of the event, health care and care needs. Conclusion: It is important to reflect on the care of nursing as a genuine process of interaction between the professional caregiver and the subjects of care, in this case the family, for ensuring the well-being and wholeness of the family system during hospitalization and recovery of the person with ECA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sharing, reading and responding to personal narratives on peer-to-peer support websites may provide adolescents with informational and emotional support to feel more confident in coping with stressful events. However, their use may also pose a threat to adolescents' coping self-efficacy. Principles of expressive writing, social sharing of emotions, narrative persuasion and self-effects may provide insight in how these actions may both positively and negatively relate to coping self-efficacy. By using a cross-sectional online survey with 311 Dutch-speaking adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18, this article explores how these actions and social support motives (i.e. information-seeking and emotional support-seeking) are related to adolescents' perceptions about the usefulness of these websites to their coping self-efficacy. The results showed a positive relation between adolescents' social support motives and their belief in the usefulness of these websites to their coping selfefficacy. Therefore, we conclude that it may be an effective coping strategy for many adolescents. There was a negative relation between experience with sharing a personal narrative and coping self-efficacy, meaning that these users did not perceive the website to be helpful to their overall confidence in coping with stressful events. However, this negative relation was reversed when they were motivated to find emotional support with similar others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The ability to efficiently regulate emotions may be essential for young university students to face the stressful events that occur in their daily life, thus preventing the possibility of suffering anxiety, depression, behavioral problems and poor academic performance. Objectives: The present study aimed to analyze the relationship that difficulties in emotional regulation and personality have with life satisfaction. Method: This correlational and cross-sectional study was conducted with 250 male and female students from a Chilean public university. Results: The results showed that the participants' life satisfaction is significantly associated with both difficulties in emotional regulation (negatively) and personality dimensions (negatively with neuroticism and positively with the other traits). However, a regression analysis determined that only emotional inattention, responsibility and neuroticism were important predictors of the participants' life satisfaction. Conclusions: Although all the variables showed a relationship with the students' life satisfaction, only some of them seemed to predict it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. Understand the experiences of young mothers and fathers from their trajectories, transitions and inflection points occurred between the news of pregnancy and the birth of the child. Methodology. study with comprehensive phenomenological approach, making use of analytical tools of the life course approach; addressing five families of young fathers and mothers who were asked about their experiences around the news of pregnancy and the birth of their child. In-depth interviews, genograms, cartographies and timelines were used to analyze their life trajectories and transitions around this process. Results. in the stories of these young people reveal three main dimensions that we have named: trajectories and motivational contexts, the existence of the child: the place of experience and the transitions in the lived body of the father and young mother. Conclusion. The subjects are spinning trajectories in their life course, in which the motives and intentions of their acts are interwoven, but also relevant events emerge as the arrival of a child in youth, against an established social order and with diminished social, cultural and economic capital, being able to enhance achievements or cause ruptures in their way of being and being with the Other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Suicidal behaviors occur mainly during adolescence and when people face highly demanding circumstances. The objective of this work was to characterize the prevalence of suicidal behavior in adolescents of the High Threat Zone of the Galeras Volcano -ZAVA-, and to establish its association with demographic and psychological variables. The sample consisted of 154 adolescents enrolled in educational institutions located in the ZAVA, in whom the presence of suicidal behavior, depression, despair, self-esteem, social support and vital events were evaluated. The prevalence for suicidal ideas in the course of life was 17.5%, for plans 6% and for attempts 8%. Suicidal behaviors were related to sex, depression, hopelessness and number of stressful life events. It is concluded that adolescents constitute a population with a risk of autolytic behaviors, demanding actions to face this situation, from a public view of mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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