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Revista de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 0124-0064
Abstract
CASTILLO-CHIROQUE, Alexandra P.; DELTA-VARILLAS, Sofia L. and HERRERA-PLASENCIA, Paúl M.. Perception of health students about distance education in a private university in Peru. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.2, pp.1-. Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 0124-0064. https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v24n2.96619.
Objective
To determine the perception of Health Sciences students about distance education in a private university in Piura, Peru during 2020.
Methodology
The research was descriptive and cross-sectional. The instrument used was a questionnaire made with a scale of Likert, applied through the Google Forms platform, and consisted of 25 questions, which were validated by expert judgment. The reliability obtained was 0.92; The sample consisted of 555 students of Health Sciences between Medicine, Stomatology and Nursing, and the sampling was for convenience.
Results
The perception of the students was good with 36.2%; It was determined by sex, being good for females with 36.6%, and for males, it was 35.4%; and according to school, Stomatology and Nursing had a good perception with 45.2% and 37.5% respectively, while Medicine obtained a bad perception with 40%.
Conclusion
36.2% of Health Sciences students perceive distance education as good.
Keywords : Education, distance; information technology; students, health occupations (source: MeSH, NLM).