Percepción y actitud de los estudiantes universitarios respecto al cambio climático

Abstract

Climate change constitutes a danger to global human and environmental health. Health personnel must exercise protection, promotion, surveillance and prevention functions, taking into account the competencies, skills and attitudes they acquired to join as professionals in the field of health, therefo-re, they must promote community eco-strategies in environmental education to its preservation. The present study identified the perception and attitu-de towards climate change of university nursing students of the Technical University of Machala. Scientific, cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical research carried out in the university population of the nursing career du-ring the months of May - September 2019. The sample size was 287 subjects. Simple random sampling was applied, with a guaranteed questionnaire of fifteen closed questions on a Likert scale. The percentage of information was evidenced as follows: 32 students stated that climate change arises from na-tural and human causes, which corresponds to 11.15% of the total population studied. Furthermore, we found that not all students adopted individual me-asures to mitigate environmental risks, but they do know about their causes and effects. Health personnel must disseminate to the community the crea-tion of healthy environments to prevent diseases and save the planet from environmental degradation, in addition, design an environmental education program, whose actions are aimed at making the individual aware of the importance of modifying their attitudes towards environmental problems raised today.