Research Article | Open Access
Indices of attitude towards smoking in school children in risk groups
Karel Llopiz-Guerra Tomas Crespo Borges Daniela Medina Coronado Mitchell Alberto Alarcon Diaz Dante Aguinaga-Villegas José Nieto Gamboa Ronald M. Hernández
Pages: 406-414
Abstract
The objective of this research is based on the case study of a group of school
children who are at risk of consumption due to smoking and the attitudes shown
before and after a pre-experiment, through weighted indices for their evaluation.
Different methods and instruments were applied at the empirical level, such as
document analysis, observation, and analysis of the products of the activity,
descriptive statistics and Chernoff's faces, as a statistical tool to process in a human
face scheme the changes in the schoolchildren at risk. The analysis and discussion
of the results in the initial and final stage was expressed through the control and
evaluation of the variables in the quantitative and qualitative order with the purpose
of guaranteeing the validity of the results on the risks of smoking
Keywords
schoolchildren, risks, smoking, index, attitude