Ikram Benazizi Dahbi

Miguel Hernández University of Elche | UMH · Faculty of Medicine

Introduction We aimed to explore the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions on the emotional state of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and/or hypertension in Ecuador and Spain. Given the differences in sociopolitical and socioeconomic contexts between these two countries, the research focused on how these diverse...

Background Although the use of traditional medicine (TM) to manage health issues is frequently reported, clinical guidelines often overlook this practice. This study aimed to describe the frequency of TM use to control 3 cardiometabolic risk factors for non-communicable diseases (arterial hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and hyperglycaemia, coll...

Background While traditional medicine (TM) is employed by a significant portion of the global population for managing health issues, clinical guidelines and state recommendations often overlook this practice. The aim of this study was to describe the frequency of use of TM to control 3 metabolic risk factors (MRF): hypertension, hypercholesterolemi...

Background Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) prevalence is increasing in low- and middle-income countries along with high levels of obesity which vary according to socioeconomic and contextual characteristics. We aim to estimate the prevalence of T2DM and obesity in men and women in a hard-to-reach rural area in northern Ecuador considering socio-demographic...

El Proyecto Contextualización de la Evidencia para la Acción en Diabetes en entornos con bajos recursos tiene como objetivo explorar los procesos por los cuales las recomendaciones en salud pública pueden ser traducidas a acciones informadas por la evidencia y adaptadas al contexto específico. Una de sus primeras fases es establecer una línea base...

This qualitative study aims to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted healthcare access for patients with chronic conditions in Ecuador from the patient’s perspective. We interviewed 19 patients diagnosed with arterial hypertension or type 2 diabetes in rural and urban areas of Ecuador during August and September 2020. We used the Framework Met...

Introduction The Diabetes Health Profile (DHP‐18), structured in three dimensions (psychological distress (PD), barriers to activity (BA) and disinhibited eating (DE)), assesses the psychological and behavioural burden of living with type 2 diabetes. The objectives were to adapt the DHP‐18 linguistically and culturally for use with patients with ty...

To analyze compliance with dietary recommendations (DR) based on the Mediterranean Diet among natives and immigrants in Spain. A cross-sectional study was carried out using the Platform of Longitudinal Studies of Immigrant Families comparing immigrant workers from Colombia, Ecuador and Morocco with Spanish workers. Adjusted odds ratios (ORa) of suf...

Diabetes is a major public health problem, increasingly affecting low- and middle-income countries. The project CEAD (Contextualizing Evidence for Action in Diabetes in low-resource settings) aims to evaluate the implementation of comprehensive diabetes care in two low-resource settings in Ecuador and to stimulate context-led health systems innovat...

Este trabajo es un comentario del artículo: Hargreaves S, Rustage K, Nellums LB, McAlpine A, Pocock N, Devakumar D, Aldridge RW, Abubakar I, Kristensen KL, Himmels JW, Friedland JS, Zimmerman C. Occupational health outcomes among international migrant workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 2019; 7(7): E872-82. doi...

Objective: To characterize the diet and eating habits of adult immigrants of Chinese origin residing in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona, Spain), and to identify the factors that influence the changes in diet and eating habits. Method: Qualitative study conducted in 2017 through a discussion group with eight adults of Chinese origin (one man...

Los estudiantes chinos en el extranjero representan el 25% del alumnado internacional. Proceden de un entorno cultural y un sistema educacional diferentes al occidental. El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar propuestas para mejorar la inclusión de estos estudiantes en la Universidad de Alicante. Estudio exploratorio mediante análisis de conten...

Diet is a principal determinant of health and is interrelated with socioeconomic factors and the acculturation of immigrants. The aim of this study was to examine the existing evidence on food, nutrition, and diet amongst immigrant populations in Spain, its relationships with their countries of origin, and to evaluate the methodological quality of...

The objective of this article is to analyze the influence of employment conditions on adherence to dietary recommendations among those born in Spain and immigrants by their time of residence. Data were used from the Platform of Longitudinal Studies of Immigrant Families (PELFI) cohort (n = 215) to compare Spaniards and immigrants with <14 and >14 y...

Introduction Migrant populations appear to be in general at greater risk than native populations for developing a number of diseases. However, the health and safety environments for these migrant populations are scarcely studied. The objective of this study is to compare the prevalence of risk exposures between migrant workers and Spain-native work...