Nivel de conocimiento y prácticas preventivas de transmisión del COVID-19 en familias del pueblo joven Túpac Amaru, Iquitos 2021

• Autor: Vasquez Flores, Ariana
• Formato: tesis de grado
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Nacional De La Amazonía Peruana
• Repositorio: UNAPIquitos-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unapiquitos.edu.pe:20.500.12737/8155
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12737/8155
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Covid-19; Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas; Prevención de enfermedades; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.03; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05

The objective of the research was to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and preventive practices in the transmission of COVID-19 in families of the young town of Tupac Amaru, Iquitos 2021. Methodology: the type of study was quantitative, descriptive, correlational; the design was nonexperimental, cross-sectional; population made up of 300 families and the sample of 108. The instruments were: questionnaire on the level of knowledge in COVID-19 (validity: 97.37%, reliability: 0.711; checklist of preventive practices (validity: 99.25%, reliability: 0.724 The results are: 48.1% families qualified with a high level of knowledge and 46.3% with a medium level, the greatest knowledge was: concept, transmission, risk of infection, severe symptoms, most affected organ and outside care. from home, and the least knowledge was in: incubation period, environments where the virus lives, mild symptoms, medications; most families presented poor preventive practices; efficient practices were: use of a mask, washing food, feeding practice healthy, and the deficient ones were: hand washing before and after using the mask, antibacterial gel or alcohol at the entrance of the house, protection with the forearm or a handkerchief when coughing or sneezing, they do not let their h ouch people without a mask and avoid touching their eyes, nose and mouth while they are out of the house. No significant statistical relationship was found between the level of knowledge and preventive practices for the transmission of COVID-19 (p=0.059; ?>0.05); concluding that the majority of families have a medium level of knowledge and poor preventive practices about the transmission of COVID-19.