Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas de dengue en todos los estudiantes de tercer año de bachillerato de los colegios fiscales 9 de Octubre, Machala, Klever Franco Cruz, Juan Henríquez Coello, El Oro, Atahualpa, Unión Nacional de Educadores Une, Juan Montalvo, Matilde Hidalgo de Procel, Simón Bolivar de la ciudad de Machala, 2012

Abstract

Introduction: In Ecuador dengue epidemics have occurred in recent years with severe clinical presentations and several deaths as a result.- Objective: To determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices about dengue third year students of school of public schools in the urban area of the city of Machala in 2012.- Methods: Cross-sectional study of prevalence, carried out in a population of 642 high school students from the city of Machala, we proceeded to collect the survey data using Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Dengue - CAP DENGUE the entire sample selected following their individual rating data forms were entered into a database in SPSS 15 and used crosstabs with relative frequencies and percentages for presentation.-Results: Students aged 17-19 years were the most prevalent 78.67%, the most frequent sex was male 57.01%, the most prevalent marital status was Bachelor / a 96.1%, 96,10% of the population lived in their home for periods equal to or greater than 5 years. Following assessment found that the knowledge, attitudes and practices were very good 25.7%, 65.89% and Regulars Buenos 8.41% without registering Bad grades. The greatest deficiencies were in the process of preventing both institutional and community staff.- Conclusions: The knowledge, attitudes and practices in teenage high school student population of the city of Machala lining be adequate in most cases, this will definitely contribute to the control of the disease, but prevention efforts are still deficient in some respects.AU