Influencia de las variables socio demográficas en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de la facultad de ciencias médicas de la universidad de Cuenca - Ecuador 2015

Abstract

This paper explores the association between academic achievement of the students of the Faculty of medical sciences of Cuenca University and the socio-demographic variables, is a study of cross-cutting analytical, using a virtual survey; the universe was formed by 1318 students enrolled in racing: medicine and surgery, clinical laboratory, speech therapy, nutrition and dietetics, imaging, early stimulation in health, physical therapy and nursing of the University of Cuenca, of which 213 did not accept the corresponding consent of the questionnaire, which were excluded, leaving a total of 1105 students for analysis.The average age was 21,67 years with a 2.79 ±. The reason men women is 1:3, mostly come from the province of Azuay 69.9% (n = 772), type of family is mainly a nuclear family with 65.2% (n = 720). It was determined to the level of education reached more frequently both mothers and fathers the average level (finished high school). It was found that women reported contributions significantly higher than men’s average use of 76.6 (of = 8.1) and 74.1 (of = 8.5) respectively.