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Revista Información Científica
versión On-line ISSN 1028-9933
Resumen
SUAREZ-BENITEZ, Yunnier; FERNANDEZ-CORRALES, Yanaisa Noraida y GALLARDO-LORA, Magdelis. Alcoholism’s App: a way for increasing knowledge related to alcoholism. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2021, vol.100, n.2 Epub 01-Mar-2021. ISSN 1028-9933.
Introduction:
Alcoholism nowadays is a rising problem in adolescent’s population.
Objective:
To certificate an App that contributes to increase knowledge related to alcoholism for the students of the Instituto Politécnico “General Luis A. Milanés Tamayo” in Granma.
Method:
In March 2019, at the Facultad de Ciencias Médicas in Bayamo, Granma, it was created an App for contributing on the students´ knowledge about alcoholism. Tools used were JClic and Gimpshop 2.8, with GPL/Linux license. To determine its efficacy, from February to March 2019 a cohort of 40 students of the total (397 students) were selected by stratified random sampling to be surveyed out.
Results:
77.5% of the students, before the App usage, showed a low level of knowledge about concerning issue and a high level (90.0%) after the App implementation.
Conclusion:
The design and implementation of the Alcoholism App contributes to the students' appropriation of knowledge on the subject of alcoholism, who showed adequate satisfaction with its use.
Palabras clave : alcoholism; educative intervention; toxic habits.