“Factores asociados al consumo de drogas en la unidad educativa espíritu santo del cantón Ambato”

Abstract

The consumption of drugs in adolescents around the world is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon that derives from the combination of several elements, so the main research objective of this research project was to analyze the factors associated with drug use (personal, susceptibility, benefits and severity) in the adolescents of the Espíritu Santo Educational Unit of the Ambato canton. For the development of the project, a descriptive methodology of bibliographic-documentary and field modality was used, which included 23 adolescents from the eighth to the third year of the unified general baccalaureate to whom the survey technique was applied, which was structured on the basis of beliefs (Rosenstock Model) and related to drug use. The investigation allowed to conclude that the majority of students consume drugs or have consumed them at some point in their lives, it was established that men are more susceptible to their experimentation and consumption, in ages between 17 and 20 years of age (late adolescence ) and whose family structure is single parent (1 single parent), it was also determined that among the main benefits that adolescents receive with drug use are those of the individual aspect such as forgetting problems, reducing stress-anxiety, and in the group aspect: social acceptance and ease to form bonds of friendship, finally that the severity of drug consumption is not perceived by adolescents, who assume that both the cultural model and their families and educational institutions exaggerate the damage they cause.

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