Factores de deserción de los estudiantes en la facultad de enfermería de la universidad de ciencias aplicadas y ambientales U.D.C.A, durante el periodo 2009-2010-i 2011
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Piratoba, Blanca N. | 2013-07
The objective of the research was to identify the economic,
academic, cultural and other factors, associated to student
dropout in the faculty of nursing at the University of Applied
Sciences and Environmental Sciences in each of the cohort
of 2009, 2010 and 2011, I. Corresponds to a descriptive study
with retrospective quantitative approach, supported by units
of the university and the Department of Planning, Admissions
and Registration System Academic, and nursing faculty. In the
five cohorts 144 deserters were identified, 59 corresponded to
the sample. To collect the information an instrument designed
by the accompanying program and adapted by the researcher
with 33 items, including variables of an individual, personal,
socioeconomic and academic type was used. Informed
consent was implemented. The results showed the first
semester as the moment of the highest number of dropouts,
being higher in females between the ages of 16 to 20 years with
a 47%. The main causes of dropout were economic factors
with 28.8%, followed by academic ones with 22%, the union of economic and academic factors are the third leading cause
of attrition with 15.3%, while vocational guidance is in fourth
place with 11.9%; lower percentage of factors such as failure
to adapt to the universities environment, health conditions
such as illness or pregnancy, change of residence to another
city, were detected.
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