{"title":"¿Es consciente el alumnado de secundaria de la trascendencia de los microorganismos y la problemática sobre la resistencia a los antibióticos?","authors":"Beatriz Robredo Valgañón, Carmen Torres Manrique","doi":"10.25267/REV_EUREKA_ENSEN_DIVULG_CIENC.2021.V18.I3.3301","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"La resistencia a los antibioticos es una importante amenaza mundial para la salud publica que puede reducirse, en parte, mediante una educacion adecuada. Sin embargo, se desconocen los conocimientos actuales de los estudiantes en este tema por escasez de investigaciones. Con este fin se ha realizado una encuesta a 364 estudiantes de 3o de Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria de seis institutos. Los resultados obtenidos muestran percepciones erroneas sobre la patogenicidad de los microorganismos, desconocimiento del uso de antibioticos exclusivo para bacterias y de los fomites como mecanismo de transmision de enfermedades infecciosas. El alumnado no es consciente de lo que implica la situacion actual de escasez de antibioticos y el problema de su resistencia. Los resultados concretos mas destacados pueden servir de ayuda al profesorado como implicaciones didacticas o propuestas de modificacion del curriculum, hacia uno menos teorico y mas centrado en casos practicos, inculcando actitudes hacia un uso responsable de los antibioticos y su importancia en la prevencion y tratamiento de enfermedades infecciosas.\nPalabras clave: antibioticos, bacterias, Educacion Secundaria, microorganismos, resistencia a antibioticos. \nAre secondary school students aware of the pathogenicity of microorganisms and the problem of antibiotic resistance?\nAbstract: Antibiotic resistance is a major global threat to public health that can be reduced at least partially through proper education. Currently, however, students’ knowledge is unknown due scarce research on this topic. To this end, a survey has been carried out on 364 secondary school students in their 3rd year from six high schools. The results obtained show erroneous perceptions about the pathogenicity of microorganisms, lack of knowledge about the exclusiveness of antibiotics for bacteria and about fomites as a mechanism of the transmission of infectious diseases. The surveyed students are not aware of the implication that represents the current situation of the lack of antibiotics and the problem of their resistance. The most outstanding concrete results can be helpful to teachers as didactic implications or proposals to modify the curriculum, towards a less theoretical one and focused more on practical cases, instilling attitudes towards a responsible use of antibiotics and their relevance for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.\nKeywords: antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, microorganisms, Secondary School.","PeriodicalId":44952,"journal":{"name":"Revista Eureka sobre Ensenanza y Divulgacion de las Ciencias","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista Eureka sobre Ensenanza y Divulgacion de las Ciencias","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25267/REV_EUREKA_ENSEN_DIVULG_CIENC.2021.V18.I3.3301","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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La resistencia a los antibioticos es una importante amenaza mundial para la salud publica que puede reducirse, en parte, mediante una educacion adecuada. Sin embargo, se desconocen los conocimientos actuales de los estudiantes en este tema por escasez de investigaciones. Con este fin se ha realizado una encuesta a 364 estudiantes de 3o de Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria de seis institutos. Los resultados obtenidos muestran percepciones erroneas sobre la patogenicidad de los microorganismos, desconocimiento del uso de antibioticos exclusivo para bacterias y de los fomites como mecanismo de transmision de enfermedades infecciosas. El alumnado no es consciente de lo que implica la situacion actual de escasez de antibioticos y el problema de su resistencia. Los resultados concretos mas destacados pueden servir de ayuda al profesorado como implicaciones didacticas o propuestas de modificacion del curriculum, hacia uno menos teorico y mas centrado en casos practicos, inculcando actitudes hacia un uso responsable de los antibioticos y su importancia en la prevencion y tratamiento de enfermedades infecciosas.
Palabras clave: antibioticos, bacterias, Educacion Secundaria, microorganismos, resistencia a antibioticos.
Are secondary school students aware of the pathogenicity of microorganisms and the problem of antibiotic resistance?
Abstract: Antibiotic resistance is a major global threat to public health that can be reduced at least partially through proper education. Currently, however, students’ knowledge is unknown due scarce research on this topic. To this end, a survey has been carried out on 364 secondary school students in their 3rd year from six high schools. The results obtained show erroneous perceptions about the pathogenicity of microorganisms, lack of knowledge about the exclusiveness of antibiotics for bacteria and about fomites as a mechanism of the transmission of infectious diseases. The surveyed students are not aware of the implication that represents the current situation of the lack of antibiotics and the problem of their resistance. The most outstanding concrete results can be helpful to teachers as didactic implications or proposals to modify the curriculum, towards a less theoretical one and focused more on practical cases, instilling attitudes towards a responsible use of antibiotics and their relevance for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
Keywords: antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, microorganisms, Secondary School.