Diseño de estrategia educativa para la prevención del parasitismo intestinal en adultos de 20 a 64 años. Consultorio N°4 Centro de Salud Baba. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Intestinal parasitosis worldwide is a public health problem that affects countries in tropical areas and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Materials and methods: observational, prospective, cross-sectional, the universe consisted of 100 adult patients from 20 to 64 years old from four clinics N° 4 Baba's health center, who were given a questionnaire to determine their knowledge about prevention of intestinal parasitosis and thus reduce the incidence. Results: The ages of 20-29 years (24%), female sex (54%), primary education (49%), housewives (36%) prevailed, ignorance prevailed over the prevention of intestinal parasitism such as: knowledge of parasitism (60%), transmission (59%), importance of sewerage (75%), personal hygiene (86%), source of water consumption (82%), cooking time of water (80%), water transmission (55%), prevention (70%), appropriate practices prevail such as frequency of removal of solids (74%), collection of intradomiciliary solids (58%) except the method of elimination of excreta (60%) they do it improperly. Conclusions: There is a lack of knowledge about the prevention of intestinal parasitism which must be strengthened to prevent the spread of this condition.