Prevalencia y factores asociados a la resiliencia en adolescentes escolarizados de la ciudad de Cuenca en el año 2012

Abstract

Objective: To determine the Prevalence and associated factors with adolescent´s resilience at Cuenca city in 2012.- Materials and Methods: This study is a transversal one, which sample was obtained by Epi Info program with a universe of 44,021 students of different urban schools of Cuenca city. For calculating was used the 22.5%, of the expected frequency, a worse acceptable of 20% and a confidence level of 95% (1,046 adolescents). It Was added 10% of possible losses (104 adolescents) what means that the total sample was 1,150 adolescents, whom 1003 get some criteria of inclusion, the students belonged to 64 schools of the urban of the city, there obtained by EPIDAT system application version 3.1 as simple randomization. We used the same form that is structured by socio-demographic variables and joined JJ63 test that measures the same resilience in adolescents, and Graffar test that measures the socioeconomic condition. The results were a statistical analysis in SPSS version 15.00 evaluation.- Results: The study found that the prevalence of not resilience in the teenagers from schools in Cuenca is 8.6%.- Conclusions: In the no resilient adolescents the main risk factor was a member at the age of 15-19 years and in education presented underachievement.AU