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Mendo, M., (2024). Factores sociodemográficos relacionado al nivel de conocimientos sobre dengue en personas que asisten al Centro de Salud de Chongoyape, 2022 [Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12423/7106
Mendo, M., Factores sociodemográficos relacionado al nivel de conocimientos sobre dengue en personas que asisten al Centro de Salud de Chongoyape, 2022 []. PE: Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo; 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12423/7106
@misc{renati/583457,
title = "Factores sociodemográficos relacionado al nivel de conocimientos sobre dengue en personas que asisten al Centro de Salud de Chongoyape, 2022",
author = "Mendo Aguirre, Maite Kimberly",
publisher = "Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo",
year = "2024"
}
Introduction: Dengue is a metaxenic disease, which affects all people without distinction, causing symptoms of fever, headache, retro-ocular pain and joint muscle. In the Chongoyape District, a large number of people became infected with this virus, probably due to poor preventive practices and ignorance of the disease. Objective: to determine the relationship between sociodemographic factors with the level of knowledge of dengue in people who attend the Chongoyape health center, 2022. Method: A quantitative investigation of correlational, cross-sectional design was carried out. The population consisted of 500 subjects attended in the month of May at the Chongoyape health center, the sample was established at 194 people, sampled for convenience. The data was collected through the questionnaire called “knowledge about dengue: document that was adapted and validated with (Aiken's V =1; p= 0.004); and reliability with Kuder-Richadrson (KR20 (0.70). The data was processed and analyzed with the SPSS version 27 program. The principle of anonymity and reliability, fair treatment and voluntary and informed participation were considered. Results: The interviewees were mostly Adult women, with a high school level of education, have independent jobs, reported storing water and having observed mosquito breeding sites in their homes; 73.7% qualified themselves with a high level of knowledge and a significant relationship was found between the level of knowledge and the educational level (<0.001).Conclusion: The research carried out shows that the population studied obtained a high level of knowledge on the subject of dengue, which allows us to take advantage of the benefit by training community agents, who guide the population to Vector identification and its multiple symptoms during the current dengue epidemic that puts the health of the northern population at risk.
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