Factores sociodemográficos asociados a la presencia de Diabetes Mellitus insulinodependiente con y sin mención de complicación en el distrito de salud Colta-Guamote, período 2014-2018.

Abstract

The objective of the research was to determine the socio-demographic factors associated with the presence of Diabetes Mellitus, insulin-dependent patients with or without mention of complication in Health District 06D04 Colta-Guamote, this disease constituted a public health problem of ascent in the world. The information was provided by the Statistics Department of the 06D04 Colta-Guamote Health District, where patients with this disease were classified and the analysis of the different socio-demographic factors was carried out based on the application of statistical methods. The variables used for our study are: Operational Unit, Canton Residence, Place of Attention, Sex, Age, Ethnic Self-Identification, Parish Residence; applying nonparametric statistical techniques, one of them is the Logistic Regression that after carrying out the respective analysis resulted in a model that explains 83.3% of the incidence on social reality, and this allows us to obtain the probability that the patient has or not complications. Another technique used is the Correspondence Analysis that allowed visualizing a large amount of information, in a reduced number of dimensions obtaining the following: two dimensions, where the first dimension contributes with 45.97%, and the second dimension gives us with 32.49% of the overall solution, it is also indicated that the Operational Unit and the Place of Attention are strongly related to dimension one, with 65.3% and 63.7% respectively, and as for the patient's Sex we obtained that it has a relatively strong relationship with the dimension two with 90.9%. Additionally, more similar research is highlighted, since it will provide us with the necessary guidelines to monitor the health status of a population.