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FEM: Revista de la Fundación Educación Médica
On-line version ISSN 2014-9840Print version ISSN 2014-9832
Abstract
ARELLANO-SACRAMENTO, César; HERMOZA-MOQUILLAZA, Rocío V; ELIAS-PODESTA, Mario and RAMIREZ-JULCA, Máximo. Attitude towards the research of university students in Lima, Peru. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2017, vol.20, n.4, pp.191-197. Epub Aug 16, 2021. ISSN 2014-9840. https://dx.doi.org/10.33588/fem.204.901.
Introduction
Universities carry the weight of society to train the majority of professionals and researchers in the country. That is why it is imperative that we know what the attitude of their students to the investigation. The scientific literature in Health Sciences does not present many studies on attitude to research that use instruments with calculated validation and reliability.
Aim
To determine the level of attitude toward research of stomatology students at a university in Lima.
Subjects and methods
A quantitative, observational, cross-sectional study was carried out in the last week of November of the year 2015 in 194 students from the sixth to ninth cycle in their respective classrooms. The 27-item instrument used presents validation (literature review and expert judgment, factor analysis) and reliability (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.65).
Results
The frequency of attitudes towards the research found was 18.6% (n = 36) in good attitude, 58.2% (n = 113) in regular attitude and 23.2% (n = 45) in bad attitude; significant difference (p = 0.00).
Conclusions
The highest frequency of stomatology students resulted in a level of regular attitude toward research.
Keywords : Attitude; Health sciences students; Peru; Research; Stomatology students.