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Currently, domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are the most common species among companion animals. The close bond that can grow between owners and their dogs could be worn out and finally broken due to various causes. One main cause is canine behavioral problems, leading to dogs being abandoned or euthanized due to the costs faced by the owner when caring for the animal. Tools have been developed to evaluate the mental and emotional cost of caring for humans, but there is currently no validated tool for evaluating this particular problem. The objective of this study was to develop a questionnaire to evaluate caregiver burnout syndrome for owners of dogs with behavioral disorders. The methodology used consisted of drafting the tool, peer validation using the Delphi methodology and internal validation via Cronbach's alpha. Non-linear snowball sampling was used (n = 156 participants). A questionnaire with 35 questions was obtained which referred to various aspects of caregivers' lives. Regarding the description of the sample used, 50% had Low Burnout, 41% had Medium-Low Burnout and 9% had Medium-High Burnout. Furthermore, regarding the internal validation of the questionnaire, the general Cronbach's alpha coefficient was α = 0.9468. We can thus conclude that the questionnaire is valid for measuring caregiver burnout syndrome in owners of dogs with behavioral disorders.
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Canine bites are an important public health problem, with consequences such as physical injuries, psychological trauma, transmission of zoonoses, infections and they can even cause death. To avoid deaths caused by this type of bite, multiple factors related to this issue must be considered. The objective of this review was to search and analyze the indexed scientific literature on canine bites resulting in death, published during the period 2013-2017. A search was carried out in various databases of indexed literature, in Spanish and English. After selecting and excluding items using PRISMA, they were classified according to SIGN guidelines to filter out the level of evidence and potential biases. Thirty-three scientific articles were retrieved and analyzed. In most of these, victims between 50 and 64 years of age (28.6%, 8/28) were registered. Additionally, in most of the articles, only one animal participated (80%, 16/20). The highest number of events occurred in public spaces (58.5%, 7/12). In conclusion, most of the scientific articles that report incidents of dog bites resulting in death, provide details about the victims, their injuries and the treatment received; however, few articles provide background information on the context of the attack and the biting animal.
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Dog bites are a major public health problem, with consequences such as physical injury, psychological trauma, transmission of zoonoses, infections, and economic costs. For this reason, it is necessary to develop preventive programs, which require quality information to support the authorities' decision-making and to raise public awareness about the application of the proposed measures. The objective of this review was to analyze the press, indexed and gray dog bite literature published during the 2013-2017 period. During that period, 385 articles from three sources of information were analyzed: Press literature, scientific literature, and gray literature. Of these, the greatest amount of information corresponding to the context and the aggressor animal was found in the press literature, where it was recorded that the greatest number of records reported in the Chilean articles were caused by potentially dangerous breeds (87.50%), having significant differences with the gray literature (p = 0.030), and in Spain, the greatest number of attacks was also made by potentially dangerous dogs 91.30% (21/23), statistically significant differences with the gray literature (p = 0.002) and with the indexed (p < 0.001). In the case of the scientific and gray literature, the greatest amount of information was found about the victim of the attack and the treatments applied to them. In these cases, the highest percentage of victims included in the reports contained both sexes for the two literatures (44.62% and 87.71%, respectively). Regarding the treatment applied, in the scientific literature in most of the reports, the patients received washings, rabies vaccine, and tetanus vaccine (46.26%) and presented significant differences in Chile with the information contained in the gray literature (p = 0.023), in Spain with the gray (p = 0.017) and with the press (p = 0.023). In conclusion, the press literature differs in multiple variables with the information reported in the scientific literature and, in some cases, with the gray literature. The reason why the material that is being distributed to the population would not coincide in multiple relevant variables in other literature and the representative reality of the problem is the basis for this topic.
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Dog bites are one of the main public health problems. They produce important consequences for those who suffer them (physical and psychological injuries, secondary infections, sequelae, risk of transmission of zoonoses and surgeries, among others). The objective of this study was to characterize epidemiologically the incidents of bites in Chile and the patterns of human-dog relationship involved. The records analyzed in this article were obtained from bitten patients who attended the main public health facilities in Chile during the period 17 September 2017 and 17 September 2018: In the period studied, 17,299 animal bites were recorded; however, only 7220 (41.74%) cases were analyzed in which the offending species could be identified. Of the bites analyzed, 6533 were caused by dogs (90.48%). Of these, 41.05% were caused by medium-sized dogs. Most bites were caused by dogs of mixed breeds (55.99%), followed by dogs of the German Shepherd breed (8.50%). Most of the dogs that bit were known to the victim (99.95%) and most of the attacks occurred indoors (57.48%). Although dog bite records have improved in Chile, it would be useful to also include background information on the context in which the incident occurred, which would be very useful for developing effective bite prevention programs.
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El presente trabajo de investigación se realizó en todas las Urocs del distrito de Paucarpata de la Provincia de Arequipa en el año 1994. El objetivo general fue: determinar la labor que cumple el promotor de la UROC y los conocimientos de la población sobre el manejo de Eda en el hogar. Los objetivos específicos fueron: a) Identificar la labor preventivo-promocional del promotor de la UROC a través de los conocimientos de la población en el manejo de EDA en el hogar. b) Verificar los conocimientos del promotor de la UROC y su relación con los conocimientos del poblador en el manejo de EDA en el hogar. c) Determinar los conocimientos de la población en el manejo de EDA en el hogar por las capacitaciones recibidas por el promotor. Considerando como hipótesis General: La labor que cumple el promotor de la UROC determina que la población tenga mayor conocimiento sobre el manejo de EDA en el hogar. Para fundamentar el trabajo de investigación se revisó dentro del marco teórico los siguientes aspectos: - Antecedentes. - Revisión de la literatura. Dentro de esto tenemos: - Generalidades - Diarreas: Tipos de Diarrea, Epidemiología, Etiología. - Unidad de Rehidratación Oral(UROC): Definición, Objetivos, Equipamiento, Funcionamiento, Actividad del Promotor de la UROC. -Evaluación del Estado de Hidratación del niño con diarrea:CCuadro, Manejo de la Diarrea en el Hogar: Plan A, Terapia de Rehidratación Oral: (TRO, Bases científicas) - Características: Rol de la Enfermera, Participación de la Población. Teniendo como variables: - Independiente: Labor que cumple el Promotor de la Uroc. - Dependiente: Conocimientos de la Población sobre el manejo de EDA en el hogar. En la recolección de la información se utilizó 3 formularios estructurados: - El primero consta de una entrevista para el voluntario de la UROC. - El segundo consta de una guía de observación para la UROC. El tercero consta de una entrevista al usuario que acude a la UROC. Se procedió al análisis e interpretación y procesamiento de datos mediante la prueba estadística del Chi Cuadrado.