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Introduction. Both Mental Health Knowledge Schedule (MAKS) and Mental Illness: Clinicians' Attitudes (MICA) are tools for exploring stigma-discrimination related to mental disorders. Spanish translations are now available; however, it is unknown their internal consistency. The research Objective was to explore the internal consistency and correlation between MAKS and MICA in students of medicine at Santa Marta, Colombia. Materials and Methods. A psychometric study was designed. A sample of 507 students, aged between 18 and 39 years (M=21.0, SD=2.9), 56.5 % were females, 65.3 % studied in a private university, and 50.1 % were taking basic medicine courses. Participants completed the MAKS and MICA, which are 12- and 16-item scales, respectively. Both scales offer Likerttype options of answer from strongly agree to disagree strongly. Results. Internal consistency (Cronbach alpha and McDonald omega) and correlation between MAKS and MICA were computed. The MAKS showed Cronbach alpha of 0.62 and McDonald omega of 0.77, and the MICA presented Cronbach alpha of 0.51 and McDonald omega of 0.33. The reproducibility of the MICA was r=0.44 and ICC of 0.61, and the MAKS, rs= 0.44 and ICC of 0.60. As Conclusions, the MAKS presents acceptable internal consistency and reproducibility; however, the MICA shows poor performance. It is recommended to use MAKS to measure stigma-discrimination related to mental disorders among medical students in Santa Marta, Colombia. MICA items need a strong review for the Spanish version. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aimed at analyzing the scientific information of the Duazary Journal, between 2012 and 2016. To this end, a descriptive and cross-sectional bibliometric analysis was performed, including 98 published papers, based on the following indexes: paper typology, number of papers per year, institutional affiliation, collaboration index, topic, citations, and language. The results show that international contributions have increased since 2014 and papers classified in the areas of health sciences and clinical medicine (95%) predominate. Likewise, it was found that more than 50% of the total manuscripts correspond to original research papers, written mostly in Spanish. Therefore, increasing the number of papers published in English constitutes an opportunity for the journal improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Human beings are integral units, composed of several dimensions; one of these dimensions being sexuality: a social construction originating in the individual, a process that interprets and assigns cultural meaning to thoughts, to sexual conduct and conditions, and in which the experience that each person has of sexuality is made up of biological, psychological, socioeconomic, cultural, ethical and religious or spiritual factors, among others. By sexual dysfunctions, we include those alterations (essentially inhibitions) that occur in any of the phases of sexual response and which prevent or hinder sexual satisfaction. The present study was carried out using a correlated design, with 311 students from a public university. The average age was 20.2 years (age range was 16-31 years); the civil status was as follows: 93.9% unmarried, 3.9% co-habiting and 2.2% engaged. The results concluded that there is no significant statistical relation between self-esteem and sexual dysfunction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Stigma discrimination against people who meet the criteria for mental disorders is frequent in Colombian adolescents; however, there is no valid and reliable instrument for measurement. The study aimed to establish the Reported and Intended Behavior Scale psychometric performance among Colombian adolescents., Methods: A validation study was carried out with 350 students aged between 10 and 17, 53.7% of whom were girls. The authors estimated frequencies for reported behaviors and measured internal consistency and confirmatory factor analysis for intended behaviors. The Reported and Intended Behavior Scale has 2 sub-scales-reported and intended behaviors, with 4 items each., Results: The reported behavior sub-scale ranged from 10.0% to 24.9%, whereas the intended behavior sub-scale presented a Cronbach's alpha of 0.88 (95% CI: 0.86-0.90) and a McDonald omega of 0.88. For the confirmatory factor analysis, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin was 0.81, Bartlett chi-squared, was 771.1 ( df  = 6, P  = .001), and Eigen value was 2.95 that explained 73.9% of the total variance. For the goodness-of-fit tests, chi-squared was 21.9 ( df  = 2, P  = .001), root mean square error of approximation was 0.17 (90% CI: 0.11-0.24), Comparative Fit Index was 0.97, Tucker-Lewis Index was 0.92, and standardized root mean square residual was 0.03., Conclusions: The Reported and Intended Behavior Scale can measure reported behaviors, and the intended behavior sub-scale shows high internal consistency. However, the dimensionality of the intended behavior sub-scale presents modest goodness-of-fit indexes. These findings need replications., (2022 authors.)