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Psychometry and estimation of cutoff points of Jefferson Scale of empathy in dental students
(Wiley, 2020-10-09)
The objective of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the 3-dimensional latent model of empathy on the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy instrument (version S), and to verify the existence of cutoff ...
Characterization of XVI Century Wall Paint and Lime Mortar in the Façade of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
(Springer Link, 2022)
The Cathedral of Santo Domingo (1521–1541), is the oldest in the New World. The main façade was finished in 1540 by Spanish builders from the Kingdom of Castile, Spain, built with Coralina limestone ashlars joined with ...
Current status and challenges of stem cell treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
(Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2021)
Neurodegenerative diseases called tauopathies, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, and Parkinson’s disease, among others, are characterized by the pathological processing ...
Intravenous tocilizumab in the management of rheumatoid arthritis: Clinical practice findings from a 6-month international, multicentre, observational study in Central America and the Caribbean
(Revista Colombiana de Reumatología, 2020)
Tocilizumab (TCZ), an interleukin-6 receptor-α inhibitor, is indicated in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis with inadequate response to disease modifying drugs. ACT UP is a multinational project collecting ...
Decline in empathy levels and sex differences in medical students from the Caribbean
(Semantic Scholar., 2021)
Empathy is an important trait in the training of medical students, as it has been shown that it improves the doctor-patient relationship. To evaluate the decline of empathy levels and possible sex differences in undergraduate ...
Dust from the Sahara to the American Continent: health impacts
(Allergol Immunopathol (Madr)., 2021)
The Saharan Air Layer is a mass of hot, dry air laden with dust that forms over the Sahara and
moves towards the Atlantic Ocean. This air mass contains soil dust particles emitted by the
action of winds on the African ...
Identifying users’ requirements for emergency mapping team operations in small island developing states: Caribbean Perspective
(International Journal o f Geo-Information, 2021)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) increasingly face natural hazards that overwhelm
their capacity to generate and share spatial-information to reduce human–economic losses. Under
such circumstances, the emergency ...
Empathic diagnosis among medical students in the Dominican Republic: declination and gender
(Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2021)
Introduction: Empathic decline is characterized by a decrease in the levels of empathy. Objective: To diagnose empathic behavior in students of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University School of Medicine, Santo Domingo, ...
Food accessibility in Central America and the Dominican Republic
(nutrición clínica y Dietética Hospitalaria, 2021)
Food accessibility is linked to food insecurity. Likewise, poverty is the main underlying determinant of household food insecurity and increases the consumption of products of little nutritional value, which has consequences ...
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 in dementia across Latin America: A call for an urgent regional plan and coordinated response
(Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 2020)
The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic will disproportionately impact countries with weak economies and vulnerable populations including people with dementia. Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs) are burdened with unstable ...