Prioridades de investigación en salud en las tesis universitarias en Puno, Perú

This research aimed to determine the frequency that national health research priority topics are addressed in university theses in Puno, Peru. This was an observational cross-sectional study conducted in 482 theses approved between 2016 and 2018 in universities’ schools of medicine (25.10%), nursing (46.47%), nutrition (18.46%) and psychology (9.95%) in Puno. A greater proportion of descriptive (56.84%) and non-experimental research works (90.45%) were found. The priority topics were mental health (7.05%); human resources (6.22%); malnutrition and anemia (18.87%); maternal, perinatal and neonatal mortality (4.77%); tuberculosis (1.86%); cancer (5.80%); high blood pressure, dyslipidemia and cardiovascular diseases (3.52%); health policy and management (0.41%); diabetes mellitus (7.46%); and respiratory infections and pneumonia (5.60%). Traffic accidents were not considered in this group. It is concluded that over 50% of the theses from the universities in Puno address a health research priority topic.