mportance of social networks in bioethics

• Autor: Domenack-Bracamonte, Augusto
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistasusat:article/917
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.usat.edu.pe/index.php/apuntes/article/view/917
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Social media; Embryo; Learning; Medios sociales; Embrión; Aprendizaje

Objective: To analyze if social networks distort learning about when does human life begin? Since when has a human being been a person? And when does human dignity appear? in third cycle students of health sciences from a private university in Lima. Methodology: Observational, quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study where the population studied were undergraduate health sciences university students from a private university in Lima. Participation was anonymous and voluntary and the inclusion criteria were: being a student, being of legal age and study third academic cycle. Results: The results showed that the incorrect use of social networks contributes to the distortion of Ethical and/or Bioethical knowledge in relation to the Beginning of Life, Person and Human Dignity. Conclusions: Social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp and TikTok distort the learning of university students and this translates into a low level of knowledge of ethical and bioethical issues about the beginning of human life, when is a person the being human and when human dignity appears.