Identificación del consumo de alcohol en adolescentes de 12 a 17 años de la ciudad de Loja en el año 2014 y su relación con aspectos sociales.

Abstract

The present investigation possesses a non-experimental traverse design, of descriptive type with a reach correlational, it outlined about as objective, to identify the adolescents of the Loja city that present consumption of alcohol and the social related aspects, as the age, gender and educational establishment type, I worked with adolescents from 12 to 17 years with the sample of 1284, of fiscal schools, fiscomisionales and particulares. For this study two instruments were used: the Questionnaire of Identification of the disorders due dysfunctions to the Consumption of Alcohol (AUDIT), and the Questionnaire for adolescents: Psychosocial aspects related to the consumption of alcohol. It was determined that the biggest percentage of parents has university studies and high school, most of them work full time, according to the perception of the adolescents they have a socioeconomic half and high level. There is 50% of adolescents that consume alcohol, with a bigger consumption percentage in the men in relation to the women and a more harmful consumption when increasing the age, a bigger percentage of consumers exist in the centers of particular education of the Loja city, although there is a little difference in relation to the consumption of risk, harmful and of dependence