Factores socio demográficos y su relación con los conocimientos y actitudes sobre sexualidad en estudiantes de bachillerato de las unidades educativas bilingües del cantón Cañar, 2022 - 2023

Abstract

Sexuality has been defined as the way in which people experience and express the instincts and feelings that constitute physical attraction to others. A good part of human sexuality is defined during adolescence. Objective: to describe the sociodemographic factors and their relationship with knowledge and attitudes about sexuality in high school students of the Bilingual Educational Units of the Cañar Canton, 2022 to 2023. Methodology: analytical, cross-sectional study, carried out with a universe of 167 adolescents, belonging to zone 6 of Education. Sociodemographic factors were collected using a form prepared by the author. The knowledge was obtained by applying the test designed by Navarro, M, and López, A, validated through expert judgment and with an Alpha Cronbach reliability index of 0.65. Attitudes were explored using the ATSS test modified by López, F. The data were processed in SPSS and the results are presented in simple and contingency tables. Results: 6 out of 10 and 3 out of 10 students showed they had a high and medium level of knowledge about sexuality; respectively, the conservative attitude turned out to be the most frequent with 47.3%, manifesting itself especially in indigenous, Catholic adolescents, in their first and second year of high school, with age ranges of 14 to 16 years. Conclusions: there is a significant statistical association between the level of knowledge about sexuality and ethnic status. Regarding attitudes and their relationship with sociodemographic variables, no significant statistical associations were found.