Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas, sobre protección solar en miembros de la empresa pública de movilidad, tránsito y transporte de la ciudad de Cuenca, 2016

Abstract

General objective: determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices abouy the efects of sun rays and sun protection on members of the public mobility Company (Empresa pública de movilidad- EMOV). Methodology: observational descriptive study. For data collection, the questionnaire on practices developed by Ríos was applie. The universo og the study was 220 members of the public mobility Company (Empresa pública de movilidad- EMOV) of wich we tooj a simple of 141 peope, the data was analized on Microsoft Exce and SPSS. The results are shown on simple tables. Results: the mean of age was of 29.7 years ± 5.6 years, with the male sex being the predominant one with 70.2% and in 55.3% of the cases the level of education was primary, 4.3% of the population was considered unprotected against solar radiation because it did not use sunscreen; the level of knowledge on sun protection achieved good scores, 70.2% of the cases were good and 29.1% excellent, 78% of the members of the EMOV showed good attitudes towards solar radiation, in terms of practices in 66.7% of the cases were excellent, 32.6% good and only 1 case representing 0.7% were bad. Conclusions: the members of the EMOV have a good level of knowledge which has repercussions on good attitudes and practices in relation to sun protection