Irapuato, Gto. December 13, 2016.- A student from Campus Irapuato-Salamanca of the University of Guanajuato (UG) traveled to Colombia to train and standardize the research project "Use of biological feedback to diminish stress on college students with low school performance."

The intern of the degree in Nursing and Midwifery Andrea Adame Olivares, participated in a research stay in the University Foundation Tecnológico Comfenalco, a private education institution in Cartagena de Indias.

For a month, the intern trained 15 people of the Tecnológico Comfenalco, among them, professors of the research seeder, high-academic-performance students willing to link with research and psychology practitioners of the University Foundation in mention.

The biological feedback consists in seeing the psychophysiological aspects that are unconscious for the person and make them visible allows the patient to watch the level of stress he handles, through sweat and heart rate.

Through the cognitive conductorly techniques they seek to diminish anxiety, stress or depression of the students to rise the academic performance, through the diaphragmatic breathing and biological feedback, in eight sessions. For that, they use the software BioGraph Infiniti, that works through sensors that detect the physiological responses of the patient and are non-invasive instruments.

At the Colombian institution, Andrea collaborated with the psychology program, that has three shifts and more than thousand students, who begin the university at the age of 15, because their baccalaureate lasts 6 years.

"What founded my research was the concern for the high levels of school desertion, which assume they suffer stress because they're too young and they consider that age is an important factor. It is my first experience, it was thrilling, how I was treated by the professors was good, besides, they were really happy with the work I made", added Andrea.

Before her stay, Olivares participated in the Research Summer and the IV Encounter of Young Researchers, on projects advised by Dr. Gerardo Ruvalcaba Palacios, professor of the Division of Life Sciences (DICIVA), who trained her in the protocol for biological feedback and the proposal for patient interventions.