Usefulness of Active Screening in the Confrontation of COVID-19 for Epidemiological Control and Cultural Formation

Authors

  • Tania Minerva Pérez Valladares
  • Isis Betancourt Torres
  • Yosbel Prieto López
  • Ángel Francisco López Aguilera
  • Juan Antonio Furones Mourelle

Keywords:

active screening, COVID-19, culture, ideological, historical, novel.

Abstract

Introduction: Active screening in Cuba demonstrated wide usefulness and effectiveness in the confrontation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The participation of students and professors from medical universities contributed to greater efficiency.
Objective: To describe the usefulness of active research in the confrontation of the COVID-19 pandemic, as an epidemiological strategy and a scientific-cultural experience.
Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out. The universe was made up of 140 students of medical science. The sample was composed of twelve students from a screening brigade, two family medicine specialists and two nursing graduates from the family medical offices selected by nonprobabilistic sampling by feasibility, organized in pairs. The actions were structured in four stages: recognition, characterization, rectification-confrontation and consolidation. The data were obtained from the surveys carried out and from the daily data collection model.Results: The procedure used, with dates of history, arts and sciences, as well as field trip to historical sites, was novel for the students and staff of the family medical offices. 83% considered the work carried out as very useful and 75% valued it as mostly different. 100% of the population was studied by screening every week.
Conclusions: Active screening is an effective diagnostic action that can be used for contributing to cultural training and strengthening ideological-political work with students.

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Author Biographies

Tania Minerva Pérez Valladares

Dra Isis Betancourt Torres. Especialista de 2do Grado de Medicina Interna. Profesora Auxiliar. Máster en Aterosclerosis. Jefe del Grupo de Investigación sobre Historia, Arte y Medicina HistArtMed. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Julio Trigo López”. UCMH. Cuba Email: isis.betancourt@infomed.sld.cu. Teléfono: 5 2763242. ORCID: https//orcid.org / 0000-0002-4590-7963

Isis Betancourt Torres

Dra Especialista de 2do Grado de Medicina Interna. Profesora Auxiliar. Máster en Aterosclerosis. Jefe del Grupo de Investigación sobre Historia, Arte y Medicina HistArtMed. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Julio Trigo López”. UCMH. Cuba  0000-0002-4590-7963

Published

2021-09-08

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Pérez Valladares TM, Betancourt Torres I, Prieto López Y, López Aguilera Ángel F, Furones Mourelle JA. Usefulness of Active Screening in the Confrontation of COVID-19 for Epidemiological Control and Cultural Formation. Educación Médica Superior [Internet]. 2021 Sep. 8 [cited 2025 Mar. 12];35. Available from: https://ems.sld.cu/index.php/ems/article/view/2788

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