Ingles Anti-tobacco education in primary school children from university extension work

Authors

  • Karel Llopiz Guerra Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas. Villa Clara.

Keywords:

health promotion, tobacco use disorder, students, education, medical

Abstract

Background: anti-tobacco education from an early age has limitations, so it requires an improvement in its educational approach from the work of university extension.
Objective: to assess the result of the application of an educational program executed by the chair "School, Health and Sexuality" of the Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas, as part of the university extension activities, to transform knowledge and behaviors about anti-smoking education in primary school children.
Methods: a pre-experimental study was conducted at the "América Latina" primary school of the Consejo Popular Norte, during two school years from 2016 to 2018. Methods of the theoretical level were used: historical-logical, analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, systemic -Structural and modeling; and empirical: documentary analysis, observation and pedagogical pre-experiment. The analyzes were based on mathematical procedures of statistical level and the criterion of experts for its application.
Results: the applied educational program demonstrated its effectiveness when the favorable change was verified from a low level in the initial stage about the subject of smoking in the students in the pretest, to a high level in the final stage in the posttest.
Conclusions: it contributed to the integration of knowledge and correct behaviors on the subject from the university extension work aimed at primary schoolchildren.

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Author Biography

Karel Llopiz Guerra, Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas. Villa Clara.

Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences. Assistant Professor.

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Published

2018-07-01

How to Cite

1.
Llopiz Guerra K. Ingles Anti-tobacco education in primary school children from university extension work. EDUMEC [Internet]. 2018 Jul. 1 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];10(3):71-90. Available from: https://revedumecentro.sld.cu/index.php/edumc/article/view/1197

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2018)

Section

ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL

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