Plan piloto para la implementación del proyecto EDUCARCSA en estudiantes de tercero de bachillerato pertenecientes a unidades educativas públicas de la ciudad de Riobamba – Chimborazo.

Abstract

A pilot plan was implemented for the implementation of the EDUCARCSA project in third-year high school students from the Public Educational Units of the city of Riobamba Chimborazo, in order to select the most appropriate methodology to impart education for health; selecting three different pedagogical techniques, which were applied in three parallels of third of baccalaureate of each one of the institutions. An initial valuation was carried out and the expository technique was then executed in parallel, the interactive in B and the discovery in C, to the apply a similar final evaluation in content of initial one and composed of 25 basic knowledge questions of the food and drug areas. One-way ANOVA was used for the analysis of the Tukey test with a significance level of p<0.05. The initial evaluations showed scores lower than 50% of the 25 total points, obtaining in the food area 58% of knowledge and 34% in medicines. In the final evaluations, in the area of food were achieved with the expository methodology 76% of knowledge, with interactive 89% and with discovery 52%. In the area of medicines with the expository methodology, 67% were reached, with 84% interactive and 39% with discovery. It is concluded that regardless of the applied methodology, it is necessary to strengthen health education, with the interactive technique being the most appropriate for the implementation of the EDUCARCSA project, with a general increase of 41% in knowledge. It is recommended to expedite a specific agreement with the Ministry of Education to extend the EDUCARCSA project in all Educational Units of the city of Riobamba-Chimborazo and implement rational use of medicines in the books given by the government.