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Riesgo psicosocial en estudiantes de los colegios Manuela Cañizares y Alicia Loza Meneses pertenecientes al distrito número 1, Cuenca 2018

Abstract:

INTRODUCTION: psychosocial risk is defined as a condition in which an individual or a population are more likely to suffer damage to their health. Adolescence is a period between 10 and 19 years with physical, psychological, social changes that can be marked by unstable family circumstances, lack of access to education, health, sexual education, good access to basic social services, which turns this period of life into a period of high vulnerability and psychosocial risk. OBJECTIVE: to determine the psychosocial risk in students of the Manuela Cañizares and Alicia Loza Meneses schools belonging to District number 1, Cuenca 2018. METHODOLOGY: descriptive quantitative study. The universe will be the students of the two schools of District number 1 of Cuenca-Ecuador, during the year 2018 to which the "Inventory for pbkp_rediction of social risk for adolescents according to the norms and protocols of integral attention to adolescents, of the MSP of Ecuador ". The data collected were entered into a database designed for this purpose in the SPSS V15.0 software. RESULTS: the inventory for pbkp_rediction of psychosocial risk was applied to a total of 346 adolescents between 13 and 19 years of age, 237 of females and 109 of males, of which 70.5% presented psychosocial risk, 95.9% of these presented a mild level, 4.1% moderate level and no cases of high psychosocial risk were found, the type of psychosocial risk at risk was classified by circle of friends (92.8%), Family risk (81.8%) and School risk (43.1%). A higher prevalence of risk was found in the late stage of adolescence (14-19 years of age).