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La, B., Sinarahua, R. (2023). Percepción de riesgo frente al covid-19 en adolescentes de dos asentamientos humanos de la ciudad de Iquitos 2023 [Tesis, Universidad Científica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14503/2694
La, B., Sinarahua, R. Percepción de riesgo frente al covid-19 en adolescentes de dos asentamientos humanos de la ciudad de Iquitos 2023 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Científica del Perú; 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14503/2694
@misc{renati/1038448,
title = "Percepción de riesgo frente al covid-19 en adolescentes de dos asentamientos humanos de la ciudad de Iquitos 2023",
author = "Sinarahua Vasquez, Ruth Mery",
publisher = "Universidad Científica del Perú",
year = "2023"
}
INTRODUCTION: In March 2020 in Peru, the COVID 19 pandemic began, taking a series of preventive measures recommended by the WHO and MINSA, such as hand washing, use of masks, social distancing, among others; which at first the population took them and applied them daily, until the prevalence of the disease was reduced and the population slowly stopped. practice them. OBJECTIVE: To determine the perception of risk against COVID-19 in adolescents from two Human Settlements in the city of Iquitos, 2023 METHODOLOGY: The type of study is quantitative, observational design, cross-sectional, prospective, correlational; surveying 106 adolescents between 15 and 19 years, from the AAHH Bello Horizonte and 92 from the AAHH Blue Goose; applying a questionnaire of 20 premises with an acceptable reliability (Cronbach's alpha 0.68) which is operationalized in high, medium and low risk. RESULTS: The population of adolescents studied is between 18 and 19 years old (65.2%), female (53.0%), with a history of COVID 19 (21.7%), with a vaccine against COVID 19 (89.4%) of which 63.8% have a single dose. 49.5% of adolescents have a low perception of risk against COVID 19, 32.8% with a medium risk and 17.7% with a high perception of risk The low perception of risk towards COVID 19 is associated with older age (p=0.036), male sex (p=0.006), and vaccination (p=0.003)
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