Bertha Salazar

Autonomous University of Nuevo León | UANL · Facultad de Enfermería

Introducción: El pie diabético es una de las mayores complicaciones de la diabetes, alteraciones como enfermedad arterial periférica y neuropatía diabética, que en un inicio se manifiestan por lesiones en los pies pueden avanzar a úlceras hasta amputaciones y provocar limitaciones de movilidad e independencia de los adultos mayores. Existen diferen...

Physical activity performed with music activates important brain areas associated with cognition, emotions, and motor skills. Limited information is available on the feasibility and acceptability of physical activity and music interventions. The current study aimed to (a) determine the feasibility of a physical training intervention with music in o...

Objective: to know the relationship between the sensory function, gait ability, and cognitive function with dependency in older adults. Method: a descriptive cross-sectional design, 146 older adults took part. Measurements: Snellen chart, Audiometer, Stereognosia tests, Semmes-Weinstein monofilament, basic aromas and flavors, GAITRite system, Mon...

The purpose of the pilot study was twofold, seeking to investigate both the feasibility and preliminary effects of a music therapy intervention on the global cognitive state (attention, immediate and delayed memory, and executive function) and gait parameters (gait velocity, cadence, and right and left stride length) in older adults with mild cogni...

Background and purpose Dementia is considered a public health priority due to physical, psychological, economic, and social repercussions in older adults, their families, and caregivers. To address this issue, healthcare providers can use music therapy as a complementary therapy. This manuscript was elaborated to analyze and synthesize the current...

Aim To clarify the concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and identify its attributes to enhance understanding of its implications for nursing practice and research. Background MCI is a concept that has evolved, thus clarification of this concept is essential for the advancement of nursing science. Design Walker and Avant's eight steps of con...

Objectives Type 2 diabetes mellitus studies focus on metabolic indicators and different self-reported lifestyle or care behaviors. Self-reported instruments involve conscious process therefore responses might not reflect reality. Meanwhile implicit responses involve automatic, unconscious processes underlying social judgments and behavior. No studi...

Various disciplines focus on a multiplicity of aspects of aging: lifestyles, personal biological factors, psychological conditions, health conditions, physical environment, and social and economic factors. The aforementioned are all related to the determinants of active aging. The aim is to describe the development of a middle-range theory based on...

The objective of the study was to formulate and contrast a successful aging model derived from the Roy’s adaptation model. A nonrandom sample of 255 adults from six social centers and one clinical center from Nuevo Leon, Mexico was analyzed. A structural equation modeling was used for data analysis. In the final model, the focal stimuli of self-per...

It is essential to identify protective factors during adolescence due to its high incidence on risk behaviors. One of these factors is to have a life project that influences adolescent decision-making. The concept of life project has mainly been linked to teen pregnancy, depression and suicide; however, some authors agree that the concept is not cl...

Two motor-cognitive interventions were implemented to evaluate their efficacy in cognitive improvement in Mexican older adults 65 years and more. The intervention group received a dance video games plus a cognitive task (dual-task); the comparison group received only the dance video game, in sessions of 45 minutes, 3 times a week, for 12 weeks. The...

Objective: to determine connections between competence, usability, environment and risk of falls in elderly adults. Method: correlational descriptive study, 123 elderly adults, both male and female, aged 70 years and older were included. Data was collected via the Tinetti Scale, CESD-7 Scale, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Usability Questionnair...

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate if the Weight Control Perceived Self-efficacy Inventory (WC-PSE) is reproducible in a Mexican college population. Methods and materials: This is an observational and prolective process study. Sixty subjects from two geographical regions of Mexico were invited to answer the WC-PSE on two separate occ...

Purpose: To test the effects of a physical-cognitive exercise intervention on gait parameters under dual-task conditions in community-dwelling older adults. Design: A repeated-measures quasi-experimental design, with control and exercise groups, was used. Setting: Study participants consist of a convenience sample recruited from senior citizen...

Propósito. El presente estudio buscó profundizar en la explicación teórica de la interacción de factores genéticos, ambientales y conductuales de riesgo de alimentación y nivel de actividad física, siguiendo el modelo de Rebbeck (2002), el cual se consideró apropiado para guiar este estudio, por explicar el estado de salud en función de las conduct...

El objetivo del presente artículo es proponer un modelo de factores de riesgo social en el que se describen estresores predisponentes para la carga alostática en los adultos mayores de 60 años. Carga alostática se refiere al uso y desgaste del organismo humano. Tras realizarse una búsqueda bibliográfica en las bases de datos CINAHL, Sage, Academic...

XIV Congreso Nacional Y I Congreso Internacional De Psicología De La Actividad Física Y Del Deporte

A sample of 65 older adults (with and without diabetes) as well as a sample of 84 healthy young people were required to take affective priming studies to compare recognition latencies of stress related word pairs against recognition latencies of positive, negative and neutral word pairs. Moreover, older adults took a stress questionnaire related to...

A sample of 76 older adults (27 with diabetes and 49 without diabetes) were selected to judge three information factors, metamemory related to—drug organization—stress and physical activity in relation to their perception of self-care. In order to do so, an Integration Information Theory was considered to determine systematic cognitive algebra rule...

Objectives: Describe the relationship between physical activity (steps/day)/exercise and obesity (body mass index, waist circumference and body fat) in adults with type II diabetes. The study also was intended to: 1) determine the relationship between education/ understanding of diabetes and physical activity / exercise, and 2) to identify differen...

Objectives: Study the factor structure of Life Satisfaction Index for the third age, short form (LSITA-SF), its internal consistency, content validity, and to contrast its divergent validity. This index is proposed as a subjective indicator of successful aging Roy Adaptation Model, self concept mode. It is contrasted to a brief measurement of depre...

Mobility in older adults is essential to preserving their physical independence and health. Changes in mobility are related to cognitive, physical, and emotional factors, among others. We explored symptoms of depression as a mediator variable between chronic diseases and comorbidities and the outcomes of perceived health and life-space mobility in...

This paper describes the process of English-Spanish translation and adaptation of the "Woman Abuse Screen" for use in research. The original screen was initially translated into Spanish by two bilingual translatorsinterpreters, followed by a content review conducted by experts to ensure that the screen included relevant aspects of the conceptualiza...

Gait depends largely on cognitive function; specifically executive function allows the individual performance of a different task while walking, known as dual task which in turn, allows independent functionality of the elderly. It was proposed to identify the relationships between executive function and gait velocity at usual walk and dual task in...

This paper describes the process of English-Spanish translation and adaptation of the "Woman Abuse Screen" for use in research. The original screen was initially translated into Spanish by two bilingual translators-interpreters, followed by a content review conducted by experts to ensure that the screen included relevant aspects of the conceptualiz...

The Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) is the most frequently used scale for measuring depressive symptomatology in caregiving research. The aim of this study is to test its construct structure and measurement equivalence between caregivers from two Spanish-speaking countries. Face-to-face interviews were carried out with 595...

Objective: to develop and validate two instruments that measure competing preferences and demands that may interfere with physical activity of young students and to describe psychometric properties. Methods: Methodological design to develop the instruments measure preferences and demands. The analysis includes a sample of 477 students from upper pu...

Acylcarnitine (AC) transport dysfunction into the mitochondrial matrix is one of the pathophysiological mechanisms of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). The effect of an aerobic exercise (AE) program on this condition in obese subjects without DM is unclear. A prospective, randomized, longitudinal, interventional study in a University Research Center i...

Recibido el 12 de abril de 2013; aceptado el 15 de noviembre de 2013 PALABRAS CLAVE Adiponectina; Leptina; Factor de necrosis tumoral-alfa; Ejercicio; Obesidad; México Resumen Introducción: La relación de las hormonas adiponectina, leptina y factor de necrosis tumoral-alfa del tejido adiposo sobre el proceso aterogénico es uno de los modelos más pr...

Introduction: The prevalence of obesity (Ob) in Mexico is 71.9% and 66.7% for women and men, respectively. Ob and overweight is a major risk for serious chronic diseases, including DT2, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke, and certain forms of cancer. Between 40% and 70% of Ob is thought to be genetic. Purpose: The purpose of this study...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine (from a pilot sample) the number of nuclear families (progenitors-descendents) adequate in order to carry out a genetic epidemiology study of the arterial hypertension (AHT) in Northeastern Mexico. Material and methods: As a pilot sample, 14 families participated. The four grandparents of the pr...

The study examines which of three interventions of cognitive conduct, laughter, or a mixed intervention including both cognitive conduct and laughter components, is more effective for improvement of attitudes toward care and reduction of anxiety among female Mexican caregivers of family members with Alzheimer's disease. A repeated measures quasi-ex...

Objective: to know the relation between possible selves (hopes and fears) and actions expressed by a group of elders from a metropolitan area of Monterrey, Mexico and their perceived health. Methods: descriptive design; with 80 community dwelling elders with mean age 70.59 ± 6.82 years old. It was applied to the Mini mental State Examination as a s...

Objective: to know the relation between possible selves (hopes and fears) and actions expressed by a group of elders from a metropolitan area of Monterrey, Mexico and their perceived health. Methods: descriptive design; with 80 community dwelling elders with mean age 70.59 ± 6.82 years old. It was applied to the Mini mental State Examination as a s...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of memory-learning on self-care activities in adults with type 2 diabetes moderated by previous education/understanding in diabetes and to explore the explicative capacity of age, gender, schooling, diabetes duration, and glycemic control in memory-learning. A descriptive correlational study was...

Purpose: To describe the corresponding parto to positivism as one of the mainstream thoughs influencing nursing research and practice. Positivism characteristics assert that knowledge is concrete and phenomena are feasible to measure. For nursing this translates into keeping privilege for that what is organic; indirectly denying the subjective part...

Purpose. To determine the influence between focal and contextual stimuli and the physiological and psychosocial adaptation in people with DMT2. Material and Method. The design was descriptive, cross, predictive. The sampling was probabilistic, systematic. The sample with 200 participants of both genders from 30 to 65 years, was determined for 95% o...

Purpose: To describe the corresponding parto to positivism as one of the mainstream thoughs influencing nursing research and practice. Positivism characteristics assert that knowledge is concrete and phenomena are feasible to measure. For nursing this translates into keeping privilege for that what is organic; indirectly denying the subjective part...

Objective. Characterize cognitive and physical performance in relation to attentional demands of elders attending day care centers from Monterrey, Mexico. Methodology: The design was descriptive, 103 participants were selected (Mean age = 70.38 years; SD = 8.45) dementia and alcoholism free verified through the Mini Mental State Examination (Spanis...

Objective. Characterize cognitive and physical performance in relation to attentional demands of elders attending day care centers from Monterrey, Mexico. Methodology: The design was descriptive, 103 participants were selected (Mean age = 70.38 years; SD = 8.45) dementia and alcoholism free verified through the Mini Mental State Examination (Spanis...

Background: physical exercise as an encouraging health conduct, contribute to maintain and prevent chronic diseases, however, the practice of exercising by adults is insufficient. Objective: to know the steps of change of the conduct regarding exercise and is related with self-efficacy in healthy adults from 20 to 59 years. Methodology: transversal...

Objetivo. Determinar la influencia entre estímulos focales y contextuales, y la adaptación fisiológica y psicosocial en personas con diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 (DMT2). Material y método. El diseño fue descriptivo, transversal, predictivo. El muestreo fue probabilístico, sistemático. La muestra con 200 participantes de ambos géneros de 30 a 65 años, s...

This study examines the association between history of violence, attitudes toward pregnancy, and initiation of prenatal care (PNC). Pregnant women receiving their first PNC visit at a public prenatal clinic in Monterrey, Mexico, were enrolled in the study. Structured interviews collected information concerning demographics, reproductive history, cu...

This is a descriptive study designed to detect the nutritional status, dietetic intake and cognitive performance of 85 elderly adults who take their meals at community kitchens in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Mexico. A brief nutrition analysis was done, dietetic intake was measured (observed and supplemented with a record of food intake for...

Aim: To assess the psychometric properties of Roy ’s Coping and Adaptation Process Scale among Mexican nationals. Materials and methods: The scale was applied to 200 participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus. To valídate the construct, factor extraction was done with main components and Varimax rotation. The eigenvalues were above 1 and factor loa...

Objective: The purpose was to verify the effectiveness of containment using pre-suction oxygen bag versus non pre-suction oxygen bag on recovery time of percutaneous hipoxia values after endotracheal suctioning of premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome. Containment is proposed as an aid to induce relaxation in premature babies; it is...

Objetivo: valorar las propiedades psicométricas de la escala de afrontamiento y proceso de adaptación de Roy en población mexicana. Materiales y métodos: la escala se aplicó a 200 participantes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Para validar el constructo se realizó la extracción de factores con componentes principales y rotación Varimax, con Eigenvalor...

El objetivo del estudio fue conocer el estado nutricional, la ingesta dietética y su relación con el desempeño cognitivo en 85 adultos mayores que acudían a comedores públicos del área metropolitana de Monterrey, México, mediante un estudio descriptivo. Se utilizó la valoración breve nutricional y la ingesta dietética (observada y complementada med...

Objective: The main purpose of the present article is to describe the adaptation and validation process of the questionnaire of "Barriers, Motivators and Facilitators of Prenatal Care Utilization" to the Health Promotion Model (HPM) and to Mexican population. Methods: The original questionnaire was initially translated into Spanish. A meticulous co...

to describe factors related to the initiation of prenatal care (PNC) among pregnant Mexican women. descriptive correlational. public prenatal clinic in Monterrey, Mexico. 253 pregnant Mexican women aged 13-46 years. structured interviews were conducted to obtain information concerning demographics, reproductive history, current pregnancy, perceptio...

Objective: The main purpose of the present article is to describe the adaptation and validation process of the questionnaire of "Barriers, Motivators and Facilitators of Prenatal Care Utilization" to the Health Promotion Model (HPM) and to Mexican population. Methods: The original questionnaire was initially translated into Spanish. A meticulous co...

RESUMEN El inicio temprano del CPN entrega beneficios importante tanto a la madre como a el futuro recién nacido. Algunos estudios han reportado ciertas barreras de tipo económico y demográfico del inicio temprano del CPN; sin embargo, se desconoce si alguna barrera de tipo psicosocial podría estar afectando esta conducta. El objetivo del estudio f...

Estrés percibido y adaptación en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 77 Estrés percibido y adaptación en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 Estrés percibido y adaptación en pacientes con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 RESUMEN Introducción: la diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DMT2) constituye un problema de salud pública, y en México ocupa los primeros lu...

Objective: The purpose was to verify the effectiveness of containment using pre-suction oxygen bag versus non pre-suction oxygen bag on recovery time of percutaneous hipoxia values after endotracheal suctioning of premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome. Containment is proposed as an aid to induce relaxation in premature babies; it is...

Introducción: la diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DMT2) constituye un problema de salud pública, y en México ocupa los primeros lugares en mortalidad general. La persona con diabetes debe aceptar su condición crónica para enfrentarla y responder lo mejor posible a las demandas de la enfermedad, ello implica adaptarse. Propósito: explorar una teoría de ran...

Objetivo: explorar si los adultos mayores poseen esquemas relacionados con el ejercicio físico y si ello se refleja en su conducta, para examinar la posibilidad de que enfermería trabaje en torno a la reestructuración de ellos, dado que en Monterrey, México, todavía son escasos los adultos mayores que lo practican. Se inicia el estudio con esta hip...

Objetivos. Probar la efectividad del ejercicio de resistencia muscular en las cifras de hemoglobina glucosilada (HbA1c), en la fuerza muscular y en la fortaleza muscular percibida; explorar la influencia de la dieta, otros ejercicios, hipoglucemiantes y manifestaciones asociadas a episodios de hipoglucemia o hiperglucemia sobre el control glucémico...

Test the effects of an endurance training exercise on glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, muscle strength and perceived muscle strength. Explore the influence of diet, exercise, medication and manifestations of hypo or hyperglycemia in the blood glucose control of adults with diabetes mellitus type 2, who attended endocrinology clinics at two p...

The purpose of this pilot study was to explore elderly Mexican women's readiness to exercise, and their multiple roles. Fifty older women were sampled from two separate neighborhoods of low socio-economic status. Readiness to exercise was examined using the Stages of Change - Exercise instrument with six categories: precontemplation nonbelievers, p...

Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Wayne State University, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-137).

INTRODUCCIÓN E n México se observa una ten-dencia a la ampliación de la cúspide en la pirámide poblacional, con un incremento de la población en proceso de envejecimiento. En el año 2000 los adultos mayores de 60 años representaban el 7% de la población, pero se estima que para el 2050 esta proporción se incremente siete veces 1 . Es urgente contar...

17 (2): 63-68 63 INVESTIGACIÓN Resumen Introducción: las relaciones sociales y la participación en activida-des productivas brindan a los adultos mayores satisfactores para la salud y su bienestar. Objetivo: describir la estructura de las relaciones sociales y las actividades productivas que realizan los adultos mayores de un área marginal en Matam...