Nivel de conocimiento de los tutores sobre los causales de los trastornos digestivos presentados por los caninos que son atendidos en la Veterinaria Faunavet.

Abstract

In the daily clinic, the most frequent pathologies in the medical consultation are digestive disorders. The gastrointestinal tract is affected by various causal factors such as diseases of infectious origin and non-infectious origin. The purpose of this research was to determine the level of knowledge of the tutors about the causes of Digestive Disorders presented by the Canines that are treated at a veterinarian located in the North Florida sector in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, called Faunavet. Which was carried out in the period of the months of june, july and the first two weeks of the month of august 2022. The following research work had a qualitative, descriptive, non-experimental, and correlational approach. As a sample, there were 102 surveys answered by canine tutors. The statistical technique used in the study was the Chi-square test. Therefore, it is determined that 42.16 % of the respondents have a low level of knowledge about the different causes of digestive disorders and the most recognized cause was parasitic, of infectious origin by 77.45 % of the sample. In addition, the significant relation between the variable level of education of the tutors with the degree of knowledge they have about digestive disorders is established. According to this study, it was concluded that the tutors surveyed do not have enough knowledge about digestive pathologies, however, they showed interest in learning about these disorders.