Introducción: La transición epidemiológica y demográfica, así como la modificación del estilo de vida han contribuido a incrementar la prevalencia de la diabetes mellitus (DM) y otras enfermedades crónicas. La DM provoca complicaciones que trastornan la calidad de vida y llevan a una muerte prematura, además de generar costos elevados para su atención. Los enfermos con DM realizan atribuciones causales acerca de su enfermedad, y conocerlas ayuda a explicar y entender lo que le pasa al enfermo y permite llevar a cabo acciones preventivas. Objetivo: Diseñar y validar un instrumento que permita conocer las atribuciones causales que los enfermos con DM realizan en relación a sus complicaciones crónicas. Métodos: Se desarrolló una escala tipo Likert de 36 ítems y se sometió a validación de contenido por 10 jueces de varias disciplinas del área de la salud. Resultados: Los ítems que fueron calificados con un porcentaje superior o igual a 80 en las categorías de suficiencia, claridad, coherencia y relevancia fueron incluidos en la escala. 4 ítems presentaron deficiencia en alguna categoría. Conclusiones: Los resultados indican una adecuada validez de la escala, por lo que asumimos que tiene un potencial considerable para identificar los factores a los cuales los enfermos con DM atribuyen sus complicaciones crónicas y así contribuir en la prevención y control de las mismas.
, in which spirituality elements were identified as coping strategies for the health-diseasedeath processes. Those results were complemented with a documental review. Objective: to claim on the caring strategies, on a specific social, cultural and historical context, that promotes the improvement of the nursing practice in the Mexican context. Method: theoretical-inductive documentary analysis. Results: communities are built from common goals and objectives, which arise as health-disease-death processes in its own particular perspective. Conclusion: nursing has as one of its main functions, to rescue people's individual and collective response, for coping with every life situation; allowing that care itself, becomes a mutual feedback exercise.
The biomedical model for chronic non-communicable dis eases considers that people with the disease must respond automatically to their medical prescription. However, this leads to a confrontation of sick people against their social group since an invisible and controlling force shapes and leads the patient into developing a disposition opposed to their required treatment plan, this element is better known as culture. The purpose of this study is to encourage reflection about the influence of culture in the lack of control regarding this type of diseases. It is proposed to differentiate between disease and illness, calling patient when treating the disease and sufferer when treating the illness. Hence, treating the suf ferer includes considering worries, fears, beliefs, expectations, emotions, and feelings, as well as repercussions of the disease on their life. To proof this statement, the concept of culture is described and conceptualized, as well as its function, and why it is of vital importance to intervene in the socio-cultural context of the sufferer. Keywords: Illness; chronic disease; sufferer; culture.
The object of study of nursing has been defined by various authors. When considering these definitions in Mexican practice, it is decontextualized or new definitions are created to attempt to standardize a view of the practice of care; these proposals consider primarily biological aspects, while sidestepping social, cultural and / or spiritual aspects that are part of the lifeways of individuals subject to care.Objective: Describe the practices of traditional and spiritual care in a Nahua community and provide information on the empirical knowledge of care practices in that community, which complement the conceptual frameworks of nursing.Methodology: Qualitative, phenomenological. Informants: tepatihs (tepatih: Nahuatl, referred to as "the healer") and a Catholic priest. Both are complementary elements, responding to specific features of the community by dealing with situations of illness within their own ideological and cultural worldview, an important consideration to reinforce current theoretical frameworks relevant to nursing.Keywords: Care practices, spirituality, Indian community, traditional medicine. RESUMOIntrodução: O objeto de estudo da enfermagem foi definido por vários autores. Ao considerar essas definições na prática mexicana, é descontextualizada ou novas definições são criados para tentar padronizar uma visão da prática de cuidados; estas propostas consideran os aspectos biológicos, principalmente, enquanto negligenciando os aspectos sociais, culturais e / ou espirituais que fazem parte dos modos de vida das pessoas sujeitas aos cuidados.Objetivo: descrever as práticas de cuidados tradicionais e espirituais em uma comu- Prácticas de cuidado tradicional y espiritual en una comunidad indígena nahuaTraditional and spiritual care practices in nahua Indian community Práticas de cuidados tradicionais e espirituais em uma comunidade Nahua
La diabetes mellitus es considerada actualmente un problema de salud pública a nivel internacional, es por ello que el objetivo de este trabajo es efectuar una revisión documental de la productividad científica con relación a esta enfermedad. Para esto, se realizó un rastreo de información con motores de búsqueda en internet. La selección de los documentos identificados fue conforme a lo requerido para el estudio; los hallazgos se examinaron, compararon y analizaron; posteriormente se efectúo una sinopsis. Se presentan aspectos sobresalientes que sitúan a la diabetes mellitus como un problema de salud pública, su epidemiología, los determinantes causales de la misma, los factores de riesgo, los estilos de vida, las secuelas de la enfermedad, el manejo no farmacológico y las acciones para evitarla. Además, evidencia los vacíos de atención para la salud, la multicausalidad de la enfermedad y de sus complicaciones, así como, la complejidad de su manejo y prevención, con propuestas de intervención individual, colectiva, multidisciplinaria y social, acorde a la vanguardia ideológica de la Salud Pública.
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