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Christian R. Mejia

Asociación Médica de Investigación y Servicios en Salud
Verified email at uwiener.edu.pe
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[HTML][HTML] Self-medication practices during the COVID-19 pandemic among the adult population in Peru: A cross-sectional survey

JF Quispe-Cañari, E Fidel-Rosales, D Manrique… - Saudi pharmaceutical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-medication impacts both negatively and positively the health of people, which has
become evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to assess the prevalence …

Use of medicinal plants for COVID-19 prevention and respiratory symptom treatment during the pandemic in Cusco, Peru: A cross-sectional survey

M Villena-Tejada, I Vera-Ferchau, A Cardona-Rivero… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru has led to people seeking
alternative treatments as preventives and treatment options such as medicinal plants. This …

[HTML][HTML] The Peru approach against the COVID-19 infodemic: insights and strategies

A Alvarez-Risco, CR Mejia… - The American journal …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 epidemic has spawned an “infodemic,” with excessive and unfounded
information that hinders an appropriate public health response. This perspective describes a …

Influence of technostress on academic performance of university medicine students in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Alvarez-Risco, S Del-Aguila-Arcentales, JA Yáñez… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The current study aims to validate and apply an instrument to assess the relationship
between communication overload, social overload, technostress, exhaustion and academic …

[PDF][PDF] The media and their informative role in the face of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): validation of fear perception and magnitude of the issue (MED …

CR Mejia, D Ticona, JF Rodriguez-Alarcon… - 2020 - researchgate.net
Methods: A validation process for a questionnaire that measures the perception of the
magnitude of this issue and whether it generates fear was carried out. The validation was …

Sociodemographic predictors associated with the willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Peru: a cross-sectional survey

D Vizcardo, LF Salvador, A Nole-Vara, KP Dávila… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
During the race for the development of a vaccine against COVID-19, even before its
commercialization, part of the population has already shown a growing fear of its …

Reference values for oxygen saturation from sea level to the highest human habitation in the Andes in acclimatised persons

J Rojas-Camayo, CR Mejia, D Callacondo, JA Dawson… - Thorax, 2018 - thorax.bmj.com
Oxygen saturation, measured by pulse oximetry (SpO2), is a vital clinical measure. Our
descriptive, cross-sectional study describes SpO2 measurements from 6289 healthy …

Prescription, over-the-counter (OTC), herbal, and other treatments and preventive uses for COVID-19

JA Yáñez, SA Chung, BR Román… - … and health management …, 2021 - Elsevier
The current COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly worldwide and has challenged fragile
health care systems, vulnerable socioeconomic conditions, and population risk factors, and …

[PDF][PDF] Validation of a scale to measure the perception of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines acceptance: the VAC-COVID-19 scale.

CR Mejia, JF Rodriguez-Alarcon, D Ticona… - Electronic Journal of …, 2021 - ejgm.co.uk
Objective: To validate a scale to measure the perception of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
acceptance. Methods: This is an instrumental and multicentre study, through which a list of …

Tropical arthritogenic alphaviruses

CR Mejía, R López-Vélez - Reumatología Clínica (English Edition), 2018 - Elsevier
Tropical alphaviruses have special tropism for bone and joint tissue. Patients can develop
chronic rheumatic disorders similar to rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. The …