Conocimiento sobre melanoma cutáneo y prácticas de protección frente al sol en los estudiantes del Área Sociohumanística (Psicología Clínica) y Técnica (Arquitectura) de la UTPL Loja Ecuador durante el período Octubre 2019 Febrero 2020

Abstract

Abstract: Melanoma is acknowledged as one of the most serious skin cancer diseases, it is a malignant tumor developed at the expense of intra-epidermal melanocytes, the incidence of which has been increasing in recent years, being the sun exposure the main risk factor. In Ecuador,it has been seen that in recent years the scope of this disease has grown, since the population does not use photo protection practices properly.Therefore, the present work was developed with the aim of determining the level of knowledge and what are thepractices of the students of Clinical Psychology and Architecture of the UTPL for the melanoma prevention.A total of 73 participants were surveyed through a validated virtual survey and it was achieved as results that 97.26% of the students had an adequate knowledge about the prevention of cutaneous melanoma; while, only 28.77% had a good protection practice.It is concluded that, once the statistical analysis was performed, there is no a significant difference between the two studied populations.