Conocimientos sobre el modelo de atención integral de salud en los estudiantes de noveno y décimo ciclo de la Carrera de Medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca, periodo marzo 2023 - agosto 2023. Cuenca - Ecuador

Abstract

Background: The Ecuadorian health system has been transformed significantly in the last 15 years, characterized by changes in the constitution and in the understanding of health as a right that lead to the implementation of the Model of Integrated Health Care within the whole territory. Objective: To determine the level of knowledge about the Integrated Health Care Model (MAIS) of ninth and tenth cycle medical students of the University of Cuenca, period March 2023 - August 2023. Method: A descriptive study was conducted, with a universe of 152 medical students registered in the ninth and tenth cycle at the University of Cuenca, the sample was obtained with a confidence interval of 95%, corresponding to 109 participants, to whom was applied a questionnaire validated by experts containing relevant theoretical points of the MAIS including the strategy of Primary Health Care (PHC). Frequencies and chi-square were used by SPSS Statistics software version 21. Results: 75.2% of the participants were found to have a high level of knowledge, in addition to a statistically significant relationship with the academic course and the curricular program studied (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The population was mainly composed of women and there was an adequate level of knowledge about MAIS, its main source coming from university education.