The Consumption of drugs and its incidence in the Academic Performance Level in the students of the Eight Years of General Basic Education of the City of Quito

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: "Determine how to influence the consumption of drugs in the Academic Performance in the students of the Eight Years of General Basic Education of the City of Quito".

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Identify the level of drug consumption by the students of the Eight Years of Basic General Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage". Verification of the level of Academic performance in students and their relationship with drug use in the Eight Years of Basic General Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage". Propose a drug prevention program for the students of the Eight Years of Basic Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage"

METHODS: Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in the population of the students of the Eight Years of Basic General Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage located in the State of the Province of Pichincha. Primary information source. We studied 114 people who attended classes ordinarily between 2018 and 2019. We identified the risk of developing low school performance, the consumption of drugs, both the licitations and the application through the application of the survey, the validated, the generation Interactive of Ibero-America The analysis was carried out with the EPI INFO 7 program, to obtain a univariate and bivariate analysis, the percentages of the quantitative variables were obtained and the search for a relation with Fisher's exact test was carried out.

RESULTS

The sample size was 114 students of the Eight Years of Basic Education of the Educational Unit "Patrimony of Humanity", of the City of Quito, in the school year 2018-2019, of which we found 58.7% (n = 67) of female sex; The average age of the studied population was 14.2 years +/- SD 13.08 years. From the demographic data we find that 100% (n = 114) of the population has not had school desertion. According to the type of drug that can be most found in licenses and illicit with 88.5% (n = 101), with respect to drug use there is a knowledge of 80.7% (n = 92). On the interest of receiving talks on prevention of drug use, the population in the study has a high interest rate of 90.3% (n = 103), which means the importance of the same. such as curiosity, lack of intrafamilial communication, low self-esteem and being accepted by a group of friends with 78% (n = 89) that is in a relationship to world statistics. The physical sign was

reduced to red eyes with 89.4% (n = 102) which is indicative for consumption at early ages. With respect to the alterations in the academic performance by the sumo the non attendance to the classes has a 95.6% (n = 109) and its biggest social problem was the economic (poverty) in a 78% (n = 89). According to the places where the drug is most consumed, we are struck by the fact that it occurs in open spaces, such as in parks, at 53.5% (n = 61), which indicates that we must be careful when our students tell us that they go to the park. to play .

CONCLUSION

The variable drug use is statistically related to the academic performance of eighth grade students.

There is a need to implement preventive actions on drug use throughout the population and with greater emphasis on the eighth grade students of basic education because of the changes they experience in the curriculum.

The 95.6% of the absences in this school stage indicate that it can reduce the problems of consumption and when we must act in prevention.

The physical changes experienced by consumption such as red eyes, changes in behavior, rejection of established norms are alarms of drug use in students.