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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2024)

It is an honor to present this new edition of the U-Mores Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of Israel Technological University, founded in 2022. Since its inception, our journal has maintained a humanistic vision and a rigorous foundation in empirical evidence, integrating Applied Neuroscience in areas as diverse as education, health, social groupings and institutions.

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot
Editor of U-Mores Magazine
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024)

Dear readers,

It is an honor to present to you the latest issue of our scientific journal U-Mores, a publication that has established itself as a reference in the field of applied neurosciences, education and mental health. In this edition, we have gathered a selection of articles that address crucial topics for our academic community and society in general.

What sets us apart? U-Mores focuses not only on scientific rigor, but also on the practical application of knowledge. Our mission is to disseminate relevant empirical evidence, promoting the intersection between research and action. We believe that knowledge should be translated into tangible solutions to improve people's quality of life.

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot

Editor of U-Mores Magazine
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

Dear readers of U-Mores, the scientific journal that seeks to promote scientific research on the disciplinary crossroads between neuroscience, psychology and education.

We are pleased to present the new issue of our publication, which addresses topics of great relevance and interest to the educational and scientific community. In this issue, we wanted to place special emphasis on two commemorative dates that invite us to reflect on diversity, inclusion and the well-being of people: February 18, International Asperger's Syndrome Day, and March 2, World Mental Well-Being Day for Adolescents.

From U-Mores, we want to contribute to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the improvement of educational practices in relation to these issues. Therefore, we have selected five articles that address different aspects and proposals to promote the integral development of students, especially those with special educational needs or who are in a situation of vulnerability.

We invite you to read them.

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot

Editora Revista U-mores
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2023)

Welcome to a new issue of U-Mores, our scientific journal dedicated to neurosciences, psychology and education. In this fascinating volume we are pleased to present to you five articles that address relevant topics in these areas, and which will undoubtedly contribute to the advancement of research and understanding of the human mind.

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot, Editor Revista U-mores
Revista U-Mores
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023)

Dear Readers,

We are pleased to present a new edition of our neuroeducation journal, dedicated to exploring the latest research and advances in the field of neuroscience applied to education. On this occasion, we have gathered a selection of articles that address various aspects of neuroeducation and its impact on the learning process of students.

We hope that the selected articles will be of interest to you and inspire you to further explore the possibilities that neuroeducation offers to improve educational outcomes and promote the holistic development of our students.

Enjoy this issue and discover how neuroeducation can transform the way we teach and learn!

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot
Editor of Revista U-Mores
Revista U-Mores
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

The scientific committee of the U-Mores Journal, under the editorial seal of the Israel Technological University, is pleased to present volume 2, number 1 of the U-Mores Journal. This publication presents 05 articles, theoretically grounded proposals with a strong humanistic vision and rigorous basis in empirical evidence.
Revista U-Mores
Vol. 1 No. 3 (2022)

We are pleased to present issue number 1, volume 3 of the U-Mores Journal. This publication presents 05 articles, proposals based on the need for scientific publications with a strong humanistic vision and rigorous empirical evidence.

In this edition, an excerpt of the work carried out in this publication is presented:

The first article refers to the generation of preliminary scales of the semantic Verbal Fluency Test. This neurocognitive assessment instrument is used globally to evaluate core competencies in linguistic performance, as well as to consider qualitative aspects of executive functioning.

Interpersonal Reactivity Index: first approach to psychometric properties in the Ecuadorian population is the name of the second article, whose main objective is to analyze the psychometric properties of the IRI (Interpersonal Reactivity Index) in the current Ecuadorian context. To this end, a sample of 382 adult subjects between 18 and 68 years of age, of both sexes, residing in the cities of Quito, Guayaquil, Ambato, San Lorenzo, Santa Rosa and Pasaje was used.

The third and fifth papers are based on the applicability of the D2 test to an Ecuadorian population group with ages ranging between 18 and 79 years, in order to know their attentional competences in front of the presented test. Preliminary normative values in selective attention performance, sustained attention, information processing speed and task efficiency are evaluated.

Improvement of the integral wellbeing of a group of older adults through the implementation of the "My Golden Years" program is the name of the fourth study. The comparative results obtained pre and post intervention showed significant changes with respect to the index for the domain "physical health" in older adults who participated in the "golden years" club program (p=0.000), applied to the Quality of Life index whoqol - bref.

Considering the relevance of continuing research and generating knowledge, the scientific community is invited to postulate their manuscripts in our journal, to publish their research results, for which it is requested to review the requirements of form in our official site that go in correspondence with the lines approved by the Israel Technological University, publisher of our journal.

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot
Editor of the U-Mores Journal
Revista U-Mores
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022)

In the second issue of U-Mores journal, from the editorial team, we wish to celebrate one of the most important days of the quarter for the scientific field: the World Health Day, commemorated in April. This month coincides with the selection process of those scientific articles that, after going through an exhaustive review process, are considered the most relevant contributions that we wish to share with the whole community, and in this issue, their authors pay tribute to such a significant date.

In July 1946, in New York, the representatives of 61 countries, gathered at the International Sanitary Conference of the United Nations, agreed on the formation of a world sanitary organization that would unify several pre-existing organizations. This agreement became effective on April 7, 1948, when the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) came into force, thus culminating a movement toward international health cooperation that had been gaining momentum for many years. The general framework that has guided its actions is the recognition of health as a fundamental right of every individual and the responsibility of governments to provide the means to achieve it. Each year WHO celebrates this day with a different theme, focusing on a specific aspect of public health, this year's 2022 theme is "our planet, our health".

In this period of renaissance, of revision of our practices and ways of linking ourselves, where mental health has gained a prominence never before experienced in the history of science, the team of the U-Mores journal, and the researchers who choose us to communicate their work, celebrate together with the scientific community this motto, 74 years after the beginning of a global agreement for the health of all peoples.

In this issue we find the following articles: "Mental health and quality of life in Ecuadorian population exposed to the covid-19 pandemic", "Sociodemographic factors, quality of life and coping with perceived stress in Ecuadorian population exposed to the pandemic (covid-19)" and "Perceived stress and quality of life in the Ecuadorian population exposed to the covid-19 pandemic". The objective of these studies is to assess the impact of exposure to the covid-19 pandemic on the mental health and quality of life of the Ecuadorian population. These studies present the levels of stress and anxiety presented by workers, students and diverse populations, from different research points of view, and from the use of a variety of validation instruments.

On the other hand, "Educational practice in the three areas of action in the U. E. B "Héctor Castillo Reyes" is a research that analyzes some of the factors that may interfere in the learning process and low performance in the first years of elementary school students. The article describes the particular case study in a public sector school with a deficient infrastructure and a high population of students with a low to medium economic level, where the influence of the conditions of the educational facilities is evaluated, together with the deficient resources available to teachers in the teaching and learning process.

Finally, "Family stress and executive functions in children with ADHD from 8 to 12 years old from a specialized center in the city of Cuenca - Ecuador", aims to investigate the possible existence of a relationship between perceived levels of family stress and performance in executive functions in children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

This is a new presentation, but it is also an invitation to the entire scientific community to be part of this space, it is a letter of intent for the generation of meeting places, debate, review, and communication of empirical evidence as the inalienable basis of our practices.

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot
Editor of the U-Mores Journal
Revista U-Mores
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

We are pleased to present issue number 1, volume 1 of the U-Mores Journal, whose publication was born as a need to integrate the field of cognitive science to the areas of education, health, social groups, institutions, and others, with a strong humanistic vision and a rigorous basis in empirical evidence. Its name - from the Latin "mores" - refers to the need for permanent revision of praxis and research standards. However, to dwell is also a "chosen voice". This mainly literary usage refers to the necessary voice that researchers must make heard in their role as founders of scientific knowledge. To dwell is also to inhabit... and this journal is an invitation to inhabit science, method and evidence from the daily university practice, in the search for excellence.

From Ecuador, and with a strong international projection, the journal focuses on current issues, with social relevance, considering the historical and social interweaving of the Ecuadorian reality, the legal framework and bioethical principles. It seeks to promote the development of critical, collaborative and competent problem-solving thinking in the scientific and community spheres.

In recent years, words such as neuroscience, neurocognition, neuropedagogy, neurodidactics and neurolearning have been of interest to the scientific community; many studies have been interested in positioning "cognitive neuroscience" as an answer to the problems that arise in educational systems, and its study has also been extended to other fields of human social behavior (Roman and Poenitz, 2018; Benavidez and Flores, 2019). Despite the various findings that science has contributed in the field of cognitive neuroscience, in diverse social scenarios and with different age populations, Ecuador -and Latin America in general-, there is still an arduous road to travel, which is not exempt from the difficulties inherent to its context.

From the editorial and scientific team of the journal, we firmly believe that empirical evidence makes possible the multiplicity of levels of analysis, the integration of epistemology(s) and the ineffable richness that comes from the viewpoint of a diversity of methods and designs.
This publication includes five articles that present interesting results at a level suitable for the target audience. These papers present the approach and the clear and pleasant exposition of the topics that, with the originality of the results presented, awaken the interest and stimulate the community in their reading.

Here are included reflections based on topics related to mental health, with evidence of experiences based on research results, theoretically grounded proposals, theoretically or empirically supported discussions, historical or biographical essays of interest to the area of sciences of integral human development and neuropsychological aspects in particular.

The published studies are briefly discussed below:

The first article, "Improvement of quality of life in patients with end-stage renal disease, based on their adherence to renal replacement therapy/hemodialysis", introduces us to the concept of "quality of life", as a state of balance of the individual with his or her family, social and spiritual environment. It describes the perception of the individual who receives a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease and the process that begins with his or her immersion in a renal replacement program.

The patient's mental health should lead to the development of mechanisms and strategies that allow him to find his point of balance again from the new reality that is projected permanently. For this, an adequate approach to the subject and his environment can make the difference, so the article deals with chronic kidney disease based on adherence to renal replacement therapy/hemodialysis. The study is based on a descriptive design, concluding in the pertinence of considering psychoeducational intervention programs that contemplate three basic aspects: education, communication and information based on strategies with which awareness of the disease and treatment can be generated.

The second paper, entitled: "Gender violence in educational settings. A look at the attitudes of managers of education district No. 07D03", seeks to investigate and analyze the attitudes on practices based on gender violence in a sample of managers of public institutions of education district 07D03 Atahualpa - Portovelo - Zzaruma, Ecuador, to determine whether such attitudes favor the eradication of gender violence, and therefore, the construction of an egalitarian society, or on the contrary, maintain the transmission and reproduction of sexist and stereotyped sociocultural patterns in the educational environment.

A descriptive and quantitative methodology was used; the instruments used for data collection were the inventory of masculinity and femininity (imafe), and the scale of attitudes towards intimate partner violence. The results indicate that managers show a favorable attitude towards the prevention of gender violence; however, there is a notable inconsistency between sexes, which would indicate that it is women who are more predisposed towards an egalitarian culture, as opposed to men, who could be conditioning their genuine attitudes with social desirability.

Thirdly, the "Psychosocial consequences in families in the cantons of Pedro Moncayo and Cayambe, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic" are addressed. In the full relevance of the investigation of the impact of the events of the last biennium, the World Health Organization has pronounced itself on the psychosocial and health consequences in the world population, due to SARS-COV-2. This article seeks to assess the psychosocial consequences in families in the cantons of Pedro Moncayo and Cayambe, Ecuador. A qualitative-quantitative study of non-experimental design is presented, with an exploratory and descriptive scope.

The conclusions reported differences in the psychosocial impact among the participating families, mediated by socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors. It was evidenced that the most affected families were those from the Cayambe canton and that the male subjects showed greater affectation in their mental health, compared to the female subjects.

In penultimate place, the work published under the title "School violence and its relationship with suicidal ideation in adolescents of the "Pedro Carbo" Educational Unit, addresses the problem of school violence and how it is related to suicidal ideation. The aim was to determine the rates of school violence and suicidal ideation in the school mentioned in the title of the article. The general objective was to analyze the relationship between school violence and suicidal ideation in the selected population, based on a descriptive and correlational cross-sectional design.

Two instruments were implemented: the Ave test (Bullying and School Violence) and the Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale. The results indicate that high levels of school violence predominate, with 66.7%, followed by 22.2% corresponding to the medium level and 11.1% to the low level. In the levels of suicidal ideation, it was found that 55.6% of the students presented a high level of ideation, 33.3% corresponded to the low level and 11.1% to the medium level.

The last article, entitled "Pilot program of psychoeducational intervention for the prevention of child sexual abuse", describes the development of a program implemented in educational institutions in the Ecuadorian highlands, with psychoeducational intervention for the prevention of child sexual abuse. It involved 264 teachers chosen according to their affinity with the program, the need for knowledge and the minimum requirements for its development.

The project addressed the historical, cultural and evolutionary perspective of child sexual abuse at national level, informed about psychosocial, legal and sexual crime definitions, incidence and prevalence at national and international level, included causal explanations and consequences of sexual abuse in an infant, exposed the bases of the explanatory framework of child sexual abuse, involved the design of strategies for the prevention of sexual abuse in children, as well as its psychological consequences. As part of the results, the development of tools for teaching work, the construction of a profile of a child abuser and an alert screen for the recognition of violated children were obtained.

Therefore, the scientific community is invited to submit their manuscripts to our journal, in order to publish their research results. The requirements of form can be consulted in our official site, in the section of instructions for authors, which must be scrupulously followed to initiate a process of selection, arbitration, correction and edition, which are in correspondence with the lines approved by the Universidad Tecnológica Israel, publisher of our journal.

In this way, we leave at the disposal of our readers this material for the transfer and dissemination of knowledge.

PhD. Ana Victoria Poenitz Boudot
Editor of U-Mores Journal