Abstract

GUERRA DOMINGUEZ, Electra et al. Risk perception of the harmful use of alcohol and its consequences in adolescents. Multimed [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.4, pp. 744-757. ISSN 1028-4818.

Alcoholism is the most important drug addiction of our time. Teaching adolescents about alcoholism and its unfavorable consequences, is a way to promote the perception of risk and contribute to the prevention of this disease. With the objective of modifying the perception of the risk of alcoholism and its consequences, a study of quasi-experimental educational intervention was conducted in adolescents of the Jesús Menéndez de Bayamo, Granma, 2015-2017. We worked with a sample of 180 adolescents from 15 to 19 years of age. Variables studied: independent (educational intervention) and dependent (perception of risk of alcoholism and its consequences for the organism, the family and social environment). The research was carried out in four stages: diagnosis, design and validation, application and evaluation. Theoretical, empirical and statistical methods were used. As summary measures, the absolute and relative frequencies were used, and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to determine the existence of statistically significant differences before and after the intervention, with a level of significance of 5%, calculated with the aid of the professional statistical program SPSS 22.0 for Windows. Initially, the low level of knowledge (55.6%), inadequate beliefs about harmful consumption of alcohol (86.7%) and low perception of risk (55.6%) predominated. After the intervention, most adolescents had improved knowledge, beliefs and risk perception, with statistically significant differences that showed that the results were due to educational work and not to chance.

Keywords : Drinking; Alcoholism.

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