Universidad Central Del Ecuador

This study focuses on understanding the conditions that affect newborn health and survival from pregnancy to the first weeks of life at the Isidro Ayora Hospital. The investigators will review data from 2008 to 2022 to identify key factors that may contribute to complications, help improve medical care, and reduce risks for newborns. By doing so, we aim to provide better support to families, healthcare providers, and ensure safer births.

Surgical hysterectomy is second only to cesarean section as a surgical procedure in women, causing an impact on sexual function, quality of life, and self-esteem, therefore it is necessary to incorporate a comprehensive care in search of women's welfare.
Objectives: To know the meaning of education in the perioperative period, in women submitted to hysterectomy for a benign cause.
To determine the efficacy of a nursing educational intervention based on self-care in the improvement of sexual function, health-related quality of life, and self-esteem in women undergoing hysterectomy for benign causes.
Subjects and methods: A sequential exploratory mixed-method study. For the qualitative phase, individual interviews will be conducted with women (35 to 65 years old) with the indication of hysterectomy for benign pathology attending the gynecology office, who will be contacted and invited to participate. The interviews will be analyzed using the content analysis technique. The quantitative phase will correspond to a quasi-experimental study design with a non-equivalent control group in women with indications for hysterectomy between 35 and 65 years old in two Obstetric Gynecological Hospitals in Quito. At least 26 women on the waiting list for hysterectomy for the experimental group and 26 for the comparison group will be included.
Instruments: Bio-sociodemographic questionnaire, Female Sexual Function Index, SF-36, and Rosenberg Scale. The two groups will receive traditional care and the experimental group will additionally receive face-to-face nursing educational intervention with technological support.
Ethical requirements will be considered. Expected results: After the nursing education intervention with technological support, women in the experimental group will improve their sexual function, health-related quality of life, and self-esteem concerning the comparison group

the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently committed to promote the control of strongyloidiasis within 2030 targets for STH control programmes. A specific target is to establish by 2030 an efficient strongyloidiasis control programme in school aged children (SAC), envisaging ivermectin preventive chemotherapy (PC) of SAC at risk of morbidity due to strongyloidiasis. The monitoring of such ambitious PC activity strictly requires appropriate diagnostic tools, but fundamental gaps exist in this field. Indeed, until now at the moment no consensus method for the diagnosis of S. stercoralis infection is recommended and the absence of a gold standard test limits capacity for effective diagnosis, surveillance and disease control. The aim of this project is to provide fundamental information on the performance and applicability of diagnostic methods for the assessment of S. stercoralis infection to inform the forthcoming WHO global strongyloidiasis control program to be implemented as a part of the WHO 2030 disease control targets. ESTRELLA is a cross-sectional study in an area of high prevalence of strongyloidiasis (San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas, Ecuador). The study will have a school-based approach, and each enrolled SAC will be asked to supply fecal and blood samples for testing with different methods for the diagnosis of S. stercoralis infection.