Nivel de conocimiento de adolescentes sobre uso de plantas medicinales tradicionales en la comunidad Quilloac, 2017

Abstract

Background. - The use of traditional plants allowed recovering the identity and linking the intercultural with the health and life of the population of the Cañar canton. The wise, consider that nature is the one who provides food and resources that help individual and collective well-being, through the use of plants for the cure of diseases or illnesses, as well as support of Western treatments.

General objective. - Determine the level of knowledge of adolescents about the use of traditional medicinal plants in the Quilloac 2017 community.

Methodology. The research is quantitative, the cross-sectional descriptive study, the universe consisted of 67 adolescents. The quantitative techniques employed: survey; the qualitative direct observation; ethical procedures informed consent and assent; the instruments: questionnaire and observation guide. The results were processed in the Microsoft Word, Excel, SPSS version 22 programs; for the analysis of information, descriptive statistics were frequently used and percentages for quantitative techniques and dialectical hermeneutics for qualitative ones.

Results.- 67% are women, 33% are men, 55% of adolescents have a low level of knowledge about the therapeutic use of medicinal plants, 82% of adolescents do not use medicinal plants to solve health problems ; 55% do not know what medicinal plants are.

Conclusions: the level of knowledge is low, it is related to the acquisition of new lifestyles, migration, acculturation, the influence of external media