Machado DM, Gómez FI, Rodríguez PTM, Bello CG, Canino MN

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Background: with the first cases of COVID-19 coupled with the subsequent development of the disease in our country, it determined the start of the active research with strong support from medical science students, with the antecedent of the support provided by them in campaigns against communicable diseases and the favorable results obtained.
Objective: to describe the contribution of the student research in the confrontation with COVID-19 at the university clinic Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz in Camagüey.
Material and Methods: a quantitative, descriptive, retrospective study of the relevant results of the research carried out by students of Medical Sciences was carried out, to identify patients with respiratory symptoms and provide educational activities in the April-May-June quarter of 2020 at the university clinic Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz in Camagüey.
Results: the highest values of the daily mean of the controlled parameters were reached in May with 96.35 % of houses visited, 90.54 % of people surveyed, 96.26 % of those over 60 years old and 92.76 % of the elderly alone. The main symptoms found were fever (44), runny nose (41) and sore throat (55), carrying out a total of 897 092 educational activities.
Conclusions: the student research allowed identifying people with respiratory symptoms, managed to visit a high percentage of homes and among those surveyed, older adults had a significant number. Health promotion activities were tools in the active research for the containment of the disease.

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