Conocimiento sobre melanoma cutáneo y prácticas de protección frente al sol en los estudiantes de las carreras de turismo y administración de empresas de la UTPL Loja Ecuador durante el periodo octubre 2019 febrero 2020

Abstract

Abstract: This study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and wich are the usual practices of the students from the carees of turism and business administration of the UTPL for the prevention of melanoma through the use of a validated virtual survey: A non-experimental prospective, cross-sectional and analytical study of tourism and business administraton students on knowledge and practices of sun protection in relation to skin cáncer and cutaneous melanoma.Both study groups obtained average scores corresponding to an inadequate level of knowledge and sun protection practices, no statistically significant difference between the scores of both groups was found. No significant difference was observed in the studied populations, which may be attributed to the limited number of individuals that were part of the study due to the difficulty presented at the time of data collection caused by the health situation that the country was going through as well as the world in general.