Introduction: interprofessional education is included in the third major health education reform. It consists of health systems-based teaching, focused on local and global competencies. It is the base of an interprofessional collaborative practice that guarantees a comprehensive health care service for patients, families and the community. Objective: to demonstrate the need for interprofessional education process in undergraduate and postgraduate Health Sciences education as a guarantee of an effective interprofessional collaborative practice that contributes to a sustainable and inclusive comprehensive health care. Method: a documentary research, in English and Spanish, was carried out in several databases: Scopus, SciELO, PubMed/MedLine, Redalyc, Google Scholar and the Infomed portal. The information was systematized and authors gave their critical evaluations. Development: collaborative interprofessional practice has been increasing in different scenarios and has become an essential condition for quality care service as demanded by society and healthcare systems worldwide in recent years and it is a necessary requirement for quality and health care safety. Collaborative interprofessional education improves coordination, integration and the merging of useful knowledge among different health and social care professionals. A close relationship between ministries of health and training institutions is required for interprofessional education from undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education. Final considerations: collaborative interprofessional education in health care education contributes to sustainable interprofessional collaborative practice.

Introduction: one of the challenges facing universities of health sciences today is the implementation and validation of effective tools for evaluation. Objective: to evaluate the quality of the partial exams of an in-house course in Morphofunctional bases of the most common hemorrhagic diathesis in Stomatology, Facultad de Estomatología, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba, course 2022. Method: an analytical and transversal observational study was carried out. For the study, it was selected 30 of the partial exams implemented in the in-house Morphofunctional bases of the most common hemorrhagic diathesis in Stomatology course, type (E) course syllabus, Stomatology career, Facultad de Estomatología, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba, course 2022. Correspondence between scheduled time and the number of items used in the test was assessed, and also, difficulty index and discrimination index for items and questions, point-biserial item discrimination coefficient and internal consistency coefficient were calculated. Results: there was an adequate correspondence between the time scheduled for the topics and the number of items used in the exam. Items with a moderate difficulty index and high degree of discrimination index predominated. The internal consistency of the individual questions was excellent, but the exam in general was low. Conclusions: the quality of the partial exam of the in-house course Morphofunctional bases of the main hemorrhagic diathesis treated in Stomatology, giving in the Faculty of Stomatology, University of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba, course 2022, was inadequate.

Introduction: the impact of chronic opioid use has been related to a wide range of cognitive disorders, ranging from minor deficiencies in cognitive abilities to problems in abilities such as attention, learning, memory, and executive functions. Objective: to carry out a systematic review to research the cognitive impact in patients who use opioids chronically and to assess the severity of this impact. Method: randomized clinical trials, case-control studies, prospective and retrospective cohorts were evaluated in two databases: PubMed and Cochrane Central, using the following search terms: "analgesic opioids", "cognitive dysfunction", "cognition impairments", "chronic disease" and "abuse, substance". The search was in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for studies conducted in adult humans with chronic opioid use and its cognitive impact. Results: 7 studies were selected, 5 of which the patients used tramadol and the negative cognitive impact was verified, a study with the use of tapentadol with a positive impact on cognition and a study with the use of hydrocodone with a positive impact on neurocognition of patients. Conclusions: despite the limitations found, as a conclusion it is considered that tramadol has a negative impact on neurocognition, which does not occur in relation to tapentadol and hydrocodone, which will present an improvement in the quality of life and cognition of patients.

Introduction: diabetes mellitus leads to many associated complications, including diabetic neuropathy and diabetic angiopathy, both with a high incidence in the onset diabetic foot and including also the diabetic retinopathy disease cause of blindness. Objective: determine if there is any correlation between the onset diabetes foot and whether or not diabetic retinopathy present in patients treated at the Hospital Provincial, María Eugenia Neto, Zaire, Republic of Angola, from September 2020 to September 2020. Method: a descriptive study was carried out in 181 patients treated in the diabetic foot department of the aforementioned hospital; variables described were as follow: age, sex, associated chronic diseases, presence or absence of diabetic retinopathy, lower limb ulcers, limb amputation and years with diabetes. Bivariate correlation tests were performed, and the Pearson´s correlation coefficient was analyzed. Results: the average age was 59.3 years, the age group over 70 years (28.2%) and the female sex (57.5%) predominated. The 41.8% of patients presented previous amputations and 40.1% had ulcers. The 65.19% of patients had irregular treatment patterns, statistically strong and significant correlation between diabetic foot and diabetic retinopathy. Conclusions: there is evidence of a strong and significant relationship between patients with diabetic foot, who may suffer from a certain degree of diabetic retinopathy, more frequent in females after their sixth decade of life that cause a longer evolution of his disease.

Introduction: atherosclerosis, its risk factors and associated diseases have been reviewed for decades. So, its multifactorial origin becomes it a continuing interest of study. Objective: characterization of the risk factors for atherosclerosis in the older smokers from the Hogar de Ancianos Pedro Vázquez Hidalgo, Holguín, in 2019. Method: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out, in which a total of 104 older smokers of 60 years old or older and both sex were involved. All variables studied were obtained from the medical records: age, sex, toxic habits associated with smoking (alcohol and/or coffee), nutritional evaluation, laboratory tests (blood glucose, uric acid, triglycerides, total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol) and cardiovascular diseases associated to the atherosclerosis (arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, ischemic heart disease, chronic kidney disease, peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular disease). Results: male sex predominated in the age group of 75 years old or older (56.6%), while the consumption of coffee and alcohol linked with smoking predominated in the female sex (61.9%). There was adequate nutrition in both sexes (29%). The HDL-cholesterol tests were elevated in 80.9% of the female sex and 94% of the male sex, in addition to an increasing triglycerides in 37.3% of the latter. Both hypertension (90.5%) and ischemic heart disease (66.6%) were most common risk factors observed in women. Conclusions: the study of risk factors for atherosclerosis in older smokers such as toxic habits, nutritional evaluation, among others, are very important for preventing related disease complications in in this population group.

Introduction: in Cuba, there is an insufficient disclosure of studies in intellectual disability and its impact on family health, despite the fact that the current rate of people with intellectual desability registered is 3.26 per 100 inhabitants, with the highest incidence in Guantánamo province. Objective: to assess the impact of intellectual disability on family functioning, studied period January 2020 to January 2022, at the Hospital Psiquiátrico Provincial "Luis Ramírez López" de Guantánamo. Method: a descriptive qualitative study was carried out. A total of 25 families (N?25) were involved in the study, families with one of their members diagnosed with intellectual disability. Variables used: socioeconomic factors, psychological factors, family functioning, social adaptation, level of repercussion. Absolute and relative frequency distributions were performed in contingency tables. Results: among the socioeconomic factors, families with structural problems in their houses (64%) and overcrowding (56 %) predominated. Psychologically, planning of tasks and family life projects as a whole was severely affected (64%). Family functioning was affected by two aspects, the lack of practical actions to face problems head on (76%) and loss of intra-family communication (72%). The needs of an specialized support (100% of families) was the most affected social adaptation. Conclusions: intellectual disability in one of the family members denotes a lack of acceptance by the community, alienation from friends and relatives; the lack of social support prevents the patients from being included in the community and, on many occasions, one of the parents has to quit his or her job to assume the patient´s care, decisions which has deep impact on family incomes.

Introduction: while a number of research studies have shown that mindfulness influences perceived stress, there is a lack of research that have tested the relationship between emotional regulation, mindfulness and perceived stress, specifically in those health workers who work in intensive care units. Objective: test relationship between mindfulness and perceived stress in health workers of public and private hospitals in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador, in order to identify whether this relationship is mediated by emotional regulation. Method: a quantitative study of descriptive correlational scope and cross-sectional design was carried out, where a questionnaire consisting of 39 questions taken from three psychosomatic scales was applied to 382 health care workers in intensive care units of the aforementioned institutions. Variables used were as follow: mindfulness, emotional regulation and perceived stress. Statistical analyses were structured using two specialized softwares Excel and Statistical Package for Social Sciences 21. Results: statistical analyses showed that mindfulness influenced perceived stress (ß=0.428**), and also emotional regulation (ß=0.488**), at the same time, emotional regulation influenced perceived stress (ß=0.417**). Conclusions: it was corroborated that emotional regulation played a mediating effect between mindfulness and perceived stress felt by the health care workers who work in intensive care units. Frequently, these personnel develop activities without mindfulness, however, they have control over their work activities and are able to regulate and hide emotions that may arise in their work environment and, in this way, reduce the risks of suffering stress.

Introduction: despite the scientific efforts to eliminate tuberculosis, it is currently considered as a reemerging disease. In Guantánamo province, no research closely related to the subject was found. Objective: to describe the clinical-epidemiologic aspects of patients with tuberculosis in Guantánamo province, period 2013-2018. Method: a descriptive, retrospective cross-sectional study of patients with tuberculosis was carried out. The study involved a total of 103 patients (N?103) recorded in a database manages at the Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología of Guantánamo. The variables studied were as follow: age, sex, risk group, municipality to which patients belong and, clinical forms. The absolute and relative frequencies were used as summary statistics method. Results: the highest number of patients with tuberculosis was found in 40 to 49 years age group (28.16%), and the male sex stood out in the group of age 50 to 59 (15.53%). The municipality with the highest number of cases was Guantánamo with 67 patients (65.04%), followed by Jamaica municipality with 10 patients (9.70%). Forty three of all the patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (50,0%) were addicted to smoking, 19 (22,10%) addicted to alcohol, and 11 (12,79%) in malnutrition state. As a result in the study, it was found in 72 patients (69.90%) presence of pulmonary tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis in 31 active patients (30.10%). Conclusions: despite of an adequate network of diagnosis, treatment and tuberculosis follow-up in the province of Guantánamo, there are several factors that determine the presence of the disease: for instance, the inadequate use of socioeconomic, sanitary and individual factors, including also aspects like overcrowding, malnutrition, and alcoholism.