Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas sobre cáncer de piel que tienen los internos rotativos del Hospital Isidro Ayora y Hospital Manuel Ygnacio Monteros

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Abstract: This study isquantitative, observational and cross-sectional. We aimed to identify the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices of skin cancer in a population in96 internsin the city of Loja. The data were collected through a self-made survey and for its analysis was used the SPSS programand represented byfrequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations.In results, the lowest level of knowledge was in the identification of factors and high-risk lesions to develop skin cancer. In attitudes, they consider that they should provide information to every person who goes to the service and in the practices the tendency is not to provide information on primary prevention and not to use measures of photo protection.The level of knowledge is deficient, however their attitudes in terms of providing information are positive. In their practices do not usually perform prevention, which is related to lack of knowledge.