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Christian R. Mejia

Christian R. Mejia

MD, MsC, PhD (c)

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March 2013 - July 2016
Universidad Continental. Huancayo, Perú
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March 2015 - January 2016
Universidad Continental. Huancayo, Perú
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  • Researcher

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Introduction The burnout syndrome affects diverse populations and among them undergraduate students, which can weigh down their academic performance and professional future. Objective This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with burnout syndrome among dental students from seven Cuban universities. Methods Multicenter, o...
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Introduction Resentment towards the Chinese population was perceived during the first months of the pandemic because the pandemic/disease started in that country. Objective To determine the factors associated with the perception of resentment towards the Chinese in Latin America during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology Analytic...
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This study aimed at studying the clinical and anatomopathological characteristics, treatment and survival of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. A retrospective cohort study was conducted with data from 150 patients from a Peruvian hospital between the years 2010 to 2020. Characteristics and survival (Kaplan-Meier method) were described. T...
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The Sustainability Editorial Office retracts the article “Prediction of Consumption of Local Wine in Italian Consumers Based on Theory of Planned Behavior” [...]
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We performed an analytical, cross-sectional study of 285 consumers to assess the influence of social influence, resistance to use, facilitators to use, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of telemedicine on the intention to use telemedicine of citizens of Argentina in times of the pandemic by COVID-19. The proposed research model was ana...
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Background: climate change is a reality, and more and more people are becoming aware of this global problem, which has generated anxiety in some populations. To validate a short survey to assess eco-anxiety in adults in South America. Methods: It is an instrumental study, and the validation was based on a previous survey, which had six questions an...
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b>Introduction: The role of women in society is diverse and fundamental. Objectives : To determine whether anxiety and moderate or major depression were associated with high alcohol consumption in Honduran women. Methods: A cross-sectional and analytic study was conducted using the self-reporting questionnaire test as a screening tool for anxiety,...
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Background Neonatal pulse oximetry screening (POS) algorithms for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) have contributed towards decreasing neonatal mortality but cannot be applied at high altitudes. New POS algorithms at high altitudes are needed. Methods This observational, prospective study included newborns born at different altitudes from...
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Introduction Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 had an impact on health and education, among other subjects. It caused changes in teaching medicine. The objective of the study was to determine student satisfaction in the subjects of the clinical area in a medical school during the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Methods The current study has an observational...
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Introduction Latin America was the region most affected by COVID-19 in the second quarter of 2020, and consequently, the impact on mental health requires evaluation. The aim of this study was to assess the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by bereavement due to COVID-19 in 12 countries in Latin America. Methods The current study...
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El objetivo de la investigación científica es producir nuevo conocimiento, por tanto, no se puede producir ciencia en ausencia de comprensión de textos académicos y, posteriormente, producción de textos que plasmen las ideas descubiertas. En tal sentido, se tuvo como objetivo determinar si la comprensión y la autoeficacia lectoras predicen la autoe...
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Introduction In Peru, the defense of a university thesis allow to obtain a professional degree and demonstrate the research skills of the aspirant. Objectives To characterize the undergraduate dental theses defended in Peruvian universities and those published in scientific journals, as well as to identify the factors associated with their publica...
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Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a rise in the global phenomenon of self-medication. The use of medicines with unsubstantiated claims of benefit for the prevention and/or treatment of infected people has been widely adopted. Objective To determine the factors associated with the use of medicines and self-...
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated problems in the training of future professionals. The objective was to determine the association between anxiety, depression and stress according to socio-educational and mental variables in medical students of a public university in Peru. Methodology: Analytical cross-sectional study, 443 students...
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Introducción: La depresión es un problema frecuente de la salud mental en el adulto mayor, estando relacionado con la desnutrición; y se sabe que este problema mental se incrementó durante la pandemia. Objetivos: Determinar la asociación entre la depresión y desnutrición en el adulto mayor de un distrito de la serranía central peruana durante la pa...
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Sustainability may be at risk in a population that has altered health, according to Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3): Health and well-being. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine could jeopardize SDG 3, specifically the mental health of the population. The present study sought to determine the association between severe anxiety, dep...
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Introduction Substance use affects physical health, mental health, causes social, economic damage in their family environment and society. In recent decades this has changed. Aim To determine the perception of the consumption of legal and illegal substances and related factors in the general Honduran population. Methodology Analytical cross-secti...
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b>Background: To determine the association between coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), medical attention and self-care of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) at the Archbishop Loayza National Hospital. Methods: This analytical cross-sectional study, involved interviewing 181 T2DM patients and recording their actions regarding three aspects–self-...
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Introduction and objective: Sci-Hub is a website that allows users to download full-text versions of millions of scientific articles for free. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between the use of Sci-Hub and consultation of scientific journals by medical students from six Latin American countries. Methods: We conducted...
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Introducción: La procrastinación es un fenómeno que afecta a múltiples estudiantes de diferentes carreras e impacta sobre todo a nivel académico. Objetivo: Determinar los factores asociados a la procrastinación en estudiantes universitarios de diez países de Latinoamérica. Material y Métodos: Investigación analítica, transversal y multicéntrica, re...
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During the pandemic, there has been evidence of work limitations during telework, which are believed to cause mental health problems. Our objective was to assess the association between perceived work limitations during telework and posttraumatic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Latin Am...
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Introduction: Due to the restrictions of mobility during the first months of the pandemic, an improvement in the environment was observed, but this has not been estimated from the perspective of mental health. Aim: To determine whether mental health and other factors were associated with the perception of the improvement of the environment after t...
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Introduction: Mental health deterioration had already been reported prior to the pandemic, resulting in domestic violence in women, but this has not yet been reported in the pandemic in Central America. AIM: To determine the Factors associated with suffering domestic violence in women in the last half year of the pandemic in Honduras. Methodology...
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Introducción: Existe evidencia sobre el efecto negativo del uso de tecnologías de información y comunicación en estudiantes, sin embargo, poco se conoce sobre problemas fisioergonómicos secundarios a su uso. Objetivo: Identificar los factores tecnológicos-educativos asociados al reporte de 4 problemas fisioergonómicos en estudiantes de medicina....
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RESUMEN Introducción: Es importante identificar variables de protección de la salud cognitiva-psicológica en pacientes dados de alta por COVID 19, específicamente que mitiguen las quejas cognitivas de memorias, sobre todo si es la actividad física, que ayuda a mantener el peso y da muchos beneficios más. Objetivo: Determinar la asociación entre el...
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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the spread of abundant misinformation by the media, which caused fear and concern. Objective To determine the association between the pathologies of the mental sphere and the perceptions of fear and exaggeration transmitted by the media with respect to COVID-19 in Latin America. Methodology The pr...
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Objective To determine whether anxiety and moderate or major depression were associated with high alcohol consumption in Honduran women. Methodology: Cross-sectional and analytic study, using the SRQ test as a screening test for anxiety, depression and alcohol consumption, confirmed with the Hamilton test for anxiety and depression. The crossing of...
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Introduction: The confinement measures applied during the pandemic brought as a consequence an increase in domestic violence, this problem has not been investigated from the perspective of adolescents in Central America. Objective: To determine the factors associated with adolescents' perception of four types of domestic violence in Honduras during...
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Introduction: During the covid-19 pandemic, mental health services were unable to cope with the high demand from the population, so many people chose to search the Internet for information that could help them cope with the psychological process they were experiencing at the time. The aim of this study was to characterize the global search trend f...
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Introduction Adolescence is a stage of physical, psychological, and social changes, which determine the personality of the individual, which can be influenced by physical appearance because of alterations in the skin texture of adolescents. Patients with dermatosis have a higher risk of developing depression, anxiety and suicidal ideas. Acne is an...
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Introduction Virtual classes brought many changes to the lives of students, not only the fact of being more exposed to screens, but also because of the repercussions. Aim To determine the factors associated with suffering from neck pain, dry eye and Sjögren’s syndrome in students in Latin America during the first wave of COVID-19. Methodology Ana...
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La publicación científica es la etapa final del ciclo investigativo, por lo que se deben estudiar los factores que se relacionan con su realización en el pregrado. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar los factores asociados a la publicación científica de estudiantes de Estomatología de siete universidades cubanas. Se diseñó un estudio multicéntri...
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Introduction The mental health of the population has been affected by COVID-19, reporting in many populations higher levels of depressive, anxious and stress symptoms, however, in Honduras there are no studies showing the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of the population. Aim To determine the factors associated with hopelessness, depressio...
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Introducción: La pandemia afectó el internado de estudiantes de salud en su asistencia hospitalaria, en la cual realizan las prácticas. Objetivo: Determinar los factores asociados a la percepción de repercusiones del internado hospitalario peruano durante la COVID-19. Métodos: Estudio transversal; se obtuvo estadística descriptiva, analítica biva...
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Introducción: Para policías y militares, el acceso a información idónea y veraz siempre ha sido importante; durante la pandemia la necesidad fue aún mayor debido a las labores que les fueron asignadas, como parte de la primera línea frente a la pandemia por la COVID-19. Objetivo: Determinar los factores asociados al miedo por la información recibi...
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Introducción: Existe evidencia sobre el efecto negativo del uso de tecnologías de información y comunicación en estudiantes, sin embargo, poco se conoce sobre problemas fisioergonómicos secundarios a su uso. Objetivo: Identificar los factores tecnológicos-educativos asociados al reporte de 4 problemas fisioergonómicos en estudiantes de medicina....
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Introduction: Every armed conflict generates an uncomfortable and stressful environment, but there were no valid instruments to measure this in the Latin American population. Objective: To validate, in Latin American, an instrument to assess stress due to a possible war originated from the current conflicts. Methodology: This is a multicentric, i...
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Introduction To determine the factors associated with interest in scientific research in dental students of six Cuban universities. Methods This is a multicenter cross-sectional analytical study. Interest in scientific research was the dependent variable, and it was assessed through a questionnaire proved to be reliable (Cronbach’s α = 0.88). We o...
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Introduction Mental health deterioration had already been reported prior to the pandemic, resulting in domestic violence, but this has not yet been reported in the pandemic in Central America. Objective To determine the factors associated with the occurrence of domestic violence in the last half year of the pandemic in Honduras. Methodology Analy...
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Objective: To determine the factors associated with complications of foreign body ingestion and/or aspiration in children from a hospital in the Peruvian social security program. Materials and methods: An observational, retrospective, analytical, and transverse study was undertaken. Medical records of patients under the age of 14 years old, who...
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Quarantine and the restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic have generated problems in nutrition and physical condition around the world. We aimed to determine factors associated with changes in perceived weight and lifestyle factors during the COVID-19 quarantine in Latin America, conducting a cross-sectional study based on a survey admi...
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Introducción: Cuba se ha caracterizado por enviar a diversos países delegaciones de salud, llamadas “misiones médicas”. Sin embargo, el interés de los futuros profesionales de formar parte de esas delegaciones no se ha investigado. Objetivos: Caracterizar la disposición hacia la colaboración médica internacional e identificar los factores asociado...
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ntroduction: The pandemic affected the internship of health sciences students when they attended the hospital. Objective: To determine the factors associated with the perceived impact of the Peruvian hospital internship during COVID-19. Methods: Cross-sectional; descriptive, bivariate analytical and multivariate statistics were obtained based on an...
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Introducción: La pandemia del COVID-19 ha generado problemas en la formación de los futuros profesionales. El objetivo fue determinar la asociación entre la ansiedad, depresión y estrés según variables socio-educativas y mentales en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad pública del Perú. Metodología: Estudio transversal analítico, se encuestó...
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Introducción: Algunas creencias religiosas conflictivas se han convertido en una amenaza para la salud pública en América Latina en tiempos de COVID-19. Objetivo: Revalidar una Escala de Fatalismo Religioso ante el COVID-19 en adultos de Latinoamérica. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio instrumental. Bajo un muestreo no probabilístico intencional par...
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Introduction: The consumption of alcoholic beverages reduces the body's ability to deal with dangerous situations and exposes people to trauma. Objective: To determine the association between the consumption of alcoholic beverages and the characteristics of maxillofacial fractures treated at a Cuban university hospital in the context of COVID-19. M...
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Introduction: It is necessary to keep up to date regarding scientific advances, even when having controversial options such as Sci-Hub. The scientific literature is generally limited to opinions about the website and it is likely that certain personal or academic characteristics of undergraduate students are related to its knowledge. Objective: To...
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Introducción: Al estudiar el rendimiento académico es importante abordar los factores influyentes en él, así como las causas a las que los estudiantes atribuyen sus éxitos o fracasos. De ahí la necesidad de contar con instrumentos válidos y confiables para tal fin. Objetivo: Validar una escala atribucional sobre la motivación de logro general en r...
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Introducción: el sedentarismo y mantener patrones alimentarios no saludables influyen en la antropometría a largo plazo. Objetivos: Asociar patrones alimentarios no saludables y estilo de vida sedentario en el desarrollo de sobrepeso (SP) y obesidad (OB) e incremento de índice de masa corporal (IMC), en adolescentes y jóvenes del estudio Niños del...
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Introducción: La satisfacción estudiantil con los programas académicos es importante en la educación médica, para crear futuros galenos competentes. No hay estudios latinoamericanos multicéntricos que determinen sus factores asociados, pare mejorar el currículo médico. Objetivo: Determinar el porcentaje y factores asociados a la satisfacción estud...
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Background : The Russia-Ukraine war brought immediate and delayed socio-economic consequences. In general, the repercussions caused fear all over the world. This study aims to validate an instrument for measuring fear perception caused by the consequences of a large-scale war in Latin American citizens. Methodology : An instrumental study in which...
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The COVID-19 pandemic generated high mortality in various countries, which may have had an impact on the mental health of young people. The objective of the study was to evaluate whether the death of a family member or close friend due to COVID-19 generated a higher prevalence of depression, anxiety, or moderate/severe stress in university health s...
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The consumption of local wine positively influences a country’s economy by providing jobs while preserving the environment. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of complementary factors, based on an extended model of the Theory of Planned Behavior, in consumer behavior toward local wine by evaluating the antecedents of Italian local w...
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The pandemic brought various problems among workers, one of them being job insecurity, since many lost their jobs and others had the possibility of being fired, which could influence their mental health. The aim of this analytical cross-sectional study was to determine the relationship between job insecurity and mental health among workers in 25 Pe...
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BACKGROUND: At present, several active ingredients have been investigated in mouthwashes having certain virucidal properties, which could reduce the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 to avoid contamination in medical or dental practice. AIM: The objective of this review is to analyze the available evidence regarding mouthwashes and their effect on the saliv...
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Objectives Education has totally changed in the context of the pandemic. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the factors associated with the level of satisfaction with virtual education in Peruvian medical students during COVID-19. Methods Analytical and cross-sectional study, based on an online survey of students nationw...
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RESUMEN Las personas que se identifican como LGBTI reciben a menudo actos de violencia y discriminación, el objetivo fue el determinar la asociación entre la percepción de violencia según el sexo de nacimiento y el contexto en el que vive la población LGBTI en el Perú. El presente es un estudio transversal analítico, de análisis de datos secundario...
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Introduction Knowing a disease is crucial for being able to fight it, especially in a region in which COVID-19 caused so many deaths, such as Latin America. Objective To determine the association between basic knowledge of COVID-19 and education level according to country of residence in Latin America. Methodology This is an analytical cross-sect...
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Monkeypox is causing great concern in society because of its great infective power and the possibility that it could become a new pandemic. This study aimed to adapt and validate the monkeypox concern scale in the Peruvian adult population (EP-VIR-MONK). An instrumental cross-sectional study was carried out under a non-probabilistic convenience sam...
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Introducción: existe evidencia limitada en cuanto al entrenamiento estudiantil en capacidades científicas y académicas esenciales para la formación médica. Objetivo: identificar los factores asociados a la capacidad científica-académica básica en estudiantes de medicina de 11 países de Latinoamérica. Métodos: se hizo un estudio transversal de aná...
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INTRODUCCIÓN: la pandemia vivida obligó a cambios sociales que pudieron influir en la salud mental. El objetivo fue determinar la prevalencia y asociaciones de ansiedad, depresión y estrés en estudiantes universitarios peruanos durante la pandemia por COVID-19. MATERIALES Y MÉTODOS: Estudio transversal analítico y multicéntrico, en 2572 estudiantes...
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This study analyzes the economic impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on leisure tourism in Peru, in terms of tourist services such as means of transportation, accommodation, city tours and restaurants. The analysis is based on the application of a survey. The cross-sectional analytical study evaluated 2,443 potential tourists of legal age from t...
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Introduction: Much of the research works developed by students and presented in scientific events are not published in scientific journals. Objective: To characterize the research works presented in the 2016 and 2018 editions of the Evento Científico Estudiantil Nacional de Medicina Interna (National Student Scientific Event on Internal Medicine -...
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Introduction The pandemic has caused fear, especially due to the daily disseminated news; however, there is not an instrument to measure this fear in multiple realities. Objective To validate a scale for Latin American perception of fear and concern transmitted by the media during the pandemic. Methodology This is an instrumental study. The surve...
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Introducción: Las benzodiacepinas tienen potencial para generar abuso, por lo que, un consumo indiscriminado, a través de la venta sin prescripción y la práctica de automedicación, significaría un alto riesgo, producto de su abuso. Objetivo: Establecer la relación entre la automedicación con benzodiacepinas y el riesgo de abuso en pacientes de un...
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Introducción: El personal sanitario representa la primera respuesta del sistema de salud en la pandemia de la COVID-19, por ello, es importante valorar su conocimiento sobre la identificación y atención de pacientes con la COVID-19. Objetivo: Identificar los factores asociados a la percepción del conocimiento de médicos residentes ante la atención...