Social distancing and security measures have contained the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, the return to face-to-face activities is necessary for specific companies, and some higher education institutions have already done so. The various disorders that this new reality could generate have motivated the present study, which aims to analyze the emotional state of teachers and administrative staff. The instrument used was the abbreviated depression, anxiety, and stress scale (DASS-21), with an internal consistency index of 0.87. The methodology was based on applying a survey to 202 participants from Quito, Ecuador. The sample consisted of 97 men and 105 women aged between 23 and 59 years. A quantitative and cross-sectional design was used in this research. The results show that 40.1% of the respondents presented anxiety, 36.63% depression, and 38.61% stress between mild and highly severe categories. Additionally, when analyzing the depression, anxiety, and stress levels compared to productivity variables, we found that five disorders, i.e., fear, anxiety, over reactivity, skeletal muscle effects, and dysphoria, directly affect productivity variables, such as performing simple tasks, performing difficult tasks, the number of products made, and the number of products rejected. Thus, returning to face-to-face mode has affected the emotional state of many people, showing differences according to the job position, with anxiety being the highest self-identified incidence rate.

Introduction: Human sexuality is a multifaceted process, and sexual desire plays a central role in the triphasic model of the sexual response cycle, as proposed by Helen Singer Kaplan.Methods: In this cross-sectional correlational study, we examined the relationship between various sociodemographic factors, such as age and motherhood, and sexual variables, including erotophobia, erotophilia, homophobia, and unconventional sex, with hypoactive sexual desire in women from Quito, Ecuador. The study sample comprised 421 women between the ages of 18 and 50, who were administered the Revised Sexual Opinion Survey and the Inhibited Sexual Desire Scale to assess their sexual attitudes and levels of desire.Results: The findings revealed that age (F = 7.13, p < 0.001) and motherhood (F = 13.72, p < 0.001) had a significant impact on inhibited sexual desire. Furthermore, significant correlations were observed between inhibited sexual desire and age (r = 0.16, p < 0.001), motherhood (r = 0.18, p < 0.001), erotophobia (r = 0.19, p < 0.001), erotophilia (r = −0.21, p < 0.001), and homophobia (r = −0.18, p < 0.001).Discussion: These results suggest that women who are older, mothers, or have higher levels of erotophobia are more likely to experience hypoactive sexual desire. In contrast, higher levels of erotophilia and homophobia were inversely related to hypoactive sexual desire. This contributes to a deeper understanding of how different personal and sexual attitudes influence sexual desire in Ecuadorian women.

In recent years, the exponential growth of artificial intelligence as a technological tool at the service of human beings has led to an ethical debate about its future implication. The existing instruments to evaluate attitudes towards artificial intelligence have non-specific dimensions and are designed for populations different from the Spanish-speaking. In this sense, it is necessary to have valid, reliable, and contextualized tools to evaluate people’s attitudes toward the use of artificial intelligence. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop an attitudinal rating scale for artificial intelligence. There were 604 volunteer participants between 18 and 55 years of age, 311 men and 293 women. Bartlett’s test of sphericity showed a significant result (approximate chi-square = 1502. 7862387833S;p <.001), and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test of sample adequacy showed an index of.825. With this, it was considered feasible to factorize the data matrix, and thanks to the factor analysis, three components explain 52.76% of the total rotated variance. In addition, a high internal consistency index was obtained for the 12 items of the inventory (0.768). These findings indicate that the EVAIA-I is a valid and reliable tool to evaluate the attitude towards artificial intelligence in Ecuador and other Latin American countries.

Background: Loss of cognitive and executive functions is a problem that affects people of all ages. That is why it is important to perform exercises for memory training and prevent early cognitive deterioration. The aim of this work was to compare the cognitive performance of the participants after an intervention by using two mnemonic techniques to exercise memory functions (paired-associate learning and method of loci). Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted with 21 healthy participants aged 18 to 55 years over a 2-month period. To assess the impact of this proposal, the NEUROPSI brief battery cognitive assessment test was applied before and after the intervention. In each session, a previous cognitive training was carried out using the paired-associate learning technique, to later perform a task based on the loci method, all from a smart device-based application. The accuracy response and reaction times were automatically collected in the app. Results: After the intervention, a statistically significant improvement was obtained in the neuropsychological assessment (NEUROPSI neuropsychological battery) reflected by the Wilcoxon paired signed-rank test (P < .05). Conclusion: The task based on the method of loci also reflected the well-known age-related effects common to memory assessment tasks. Episodic memory training using the method of loci can be successfully implemented using a smart device app. A stage-based methodological design allows to acquire mnemic skills gradually, obtaining a significant cognitive improvement in a short period of time.

En Latinoamérica, la práctica pre-profesional en psicología ha sido desarrollada como una actividad complementaria dentro del pensum académico. Consiste en la detección de los signos y síntomas que caracterizan una determinada alteración o patología, para la búsqueda de soluciones que permitan resolver aquellos problemas, dejando de lado el aspecto humano que incluye: contextos, relaciones interpersonales y los proyectos de vida. Por consiguiente la práctica pre-profesional debe articular el conocimiento teórico adquirido en base al análisis en los años de formación básica y especializada con un manejo clínico integral en individuos o grupos sociales en condiciones de vulnerabilidad. Existe una diversidad de condiciones que pudieran afectar la psiquis de los pacientes, requiriendo para su restablecimiento un trabajo bajo los lineamientos de la socio-formación a partir de la sociedad del conocimiento. Así se re direcciona el proceso de intervención en base a la colaboración, la transdisciplinariedad, el emprendimiento y los valores universales que son indispensables para alcanzar el bien común y el cuidado del medio ambiente