Pérez SG, Fong RHG, Fernández ER, Sacerio CM, Jones LE

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 964-970
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ABSTRACT

A quasi-experimental educational intervention was performed in 60 seventh graders of "Francisco Maceo Osorio" Urban Junior High School in Santiago de Cuba, from November 2010 to February 2011, with the purpose of modifying their knowledge of acute diarrheal diseases. A questionnaire was used, which included some aspects on the disease, and their answers were evaluated at that moment and 3 months after several working sessions, where participative techniques were used to exchange information and to make the activity more enjoyable. Absolute frequency and percentage were used as summary measures for qualitative variates and the McNemar test was applied with 95 % significance. Before the study 85.0 % of them had inadequate knowledge of the topic, which was related to the insufficient promotion and prevention activities, but this behavior was successfully changed after that (93.3 %). The educational action proved to be effective, so that this experience could be extended to other schools in the territory.

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