Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the fertility awareness, attitudes towards parenting, and knowledge about Assisted Reproductive Technology of Argentinian university students.Methods: This naturalistic, cross-sectional and quantitative study included the translation into Spanish of the Swedish Fertility Awareness Questionnaire; adjustments were also made to fit the questionnaire to local cultural norm. Through a snowball design using social media, university students were contacted in June 2019 and asked to complete an anonymous online self-report survey.Results: A total of 680 students (83.2% females and 16.4% males) aged 24.7 years on average (SD=5.6) answered the questionnaire. Approximately 70% believed they had high levels of knowledge about human reproduction; nevertheless, 46% thought that women could get pregnant in any stage of the cycle; 36.2% believed that fertility in women decreased between the ages of 45 and 50, 33.2% between the ages of 40 and 45, and 25.9% between the ages of 35 and 40 years. Half of the studied population thought that the chances of getting pregnant during the ovulation period ranged between 80-100%. In regard to age-related fertility decline in men, 57% believed that it simply did not happen. As to their desire to become parents, 58.3% stated that they planned to have children, and 50% said it was very important. The risk factors tied to infertility listed by the students were as follows: drug use (79.2%); aging (78.2%); smoking (69.2%); alcohol (66.5%); and sexually transmitted infections (43%).
Conclusions:Argentinian university students wrongly see themselves as knowledgeable about fertility. Interventions are required to improve awareness over fertility among university students in Argentina.
With the aim of studying the rupture processes in therapeutic alliance and its association with therapeutic change and early drop-out in psychotherapy. Fifteen patients diagnosed with emotional disorders were divided en three groups, each one with five participants: drop-out patients, patients with change and none change patients. The first four sessions were analyzed by four judges using the Rupture Resolution Rating System by a consensual method. Afterwards differential patterns of ruptures and resolutions were analyzed in each group. On average 1,18 (SD= 1,74) ruptures were found per session. Withdrawal (54,72%) and Confrontation (45,28%) ruptures were found evenly. Early change patients had higher resolution rupture ratio (ratio= 0,50) than none change patients (ratio= 0,30). There were no differences in the ruptures between groups. Results suggests that alliance ruptures don't imply a threat on itself to treatments (in terms of early processes and drop-out). However, the resolution of said ruptures could improve early responses.
Las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TICs) han ido transformando de maneras diversas el campo de la psicoterapia. Más notoria es la irrupción de las mismas en esta época de COVID-19 donde la herramienta más poderosa que se tiene para vincularse con los otros son las TICs. Mas allá de su gran utilización y de que hoy sea la única vía para poder llevar acabo una psicoterapia, todavía en América Latina no se halla suficiente información sobre el impacto que tienen estas herramientas en el proceso terapéutico y como influyen en los resultados del tratamiento. Por eso mismo, el objetivo de esta investigación fue indagar en la perspectiva de los pacientes sobre la integración de las TICs en sus tratamientos psicoterapéuticos. Método: Se tomaron 12 entrevistas semi-estructuradas a pacientes que hayan utilizado herramientas tecnológicas en psicoterapia, las mismas fueron desgrabadas y analizadas con el método CQR (Consensual Qualitative Research). Resultados: Se ha encontrado 8 dominios que sobresalen en las entrevistas tomadas, los cuales se encuentran en la sección de resultados. Discusión: Los participantes creen que es una buena alternativa a la psicoterapia si es que por distintos motivos no puede concretarse el encuentro físico con el terapeuta, y consideran que es positivo su incorporación en los tratamientos notando algunos cambios vinculados a estas mismas. Sin embargo, ellos prefieren seguir sosteniendo la manera presencial de llevar adelante un proceso terapéutico.
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