El Consumo de drogas y su incidencia en el Nivel de Rendimiento Académico en los estudiantes de los Octavos Años de Educación General Básica de la Ciudad de Quito

OBJECTIVE: "Determine how to influence the consumption of drugs in the Academic Performance in the students of the Eight Years of General Basic Education of the City of Quito". SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Identify the level of drug consumption by the students of the Eight Years of Basic General Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage". Verification of the level of Academic performance in students and their relationship with drug use in the Eight Years of Basic General Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage". Propose a drug prevention program for the students of the Eight Years of Basic Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage" METHODS: Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in the population of the students of the Eight Years of Basic General Education of the Educational Unit "World Heritage located in the State of the Province of Pichincha. Primary information source. We studied 114 people who attended classes ordinarily between 2018 and 2019. We identified the risk of developing low school performance, the consumption of drugs, both the licitations and the application through the application of the survey, the validated, the generation Interactive of Ibero-America The analysis was carried out with the EPI INFO 7 program, to obtain a univariate and bivariate analysis, the percentages of the quantitative variables were obtained and the search for a relation with Fisher's exact test was carried out. RESULTS The sample size was 114 students of the Eight Years of Basic Education of the Educational Unit "Patrimony of Humanity", of the City of Quito, in the school year 2018-2019, of which we found 58.7% (n = 67) of female sex; The average age of the studied population was 14.2 years +/- SD 13.08 years. From the demographic data we find that 100% (n = 114) of the population has not had school desertion. According to the type of drug that can be most found in licenses and illicit with 88.5% (n = 101), with respect to drug use there is a knowledge of 80.7% (n = 92). On the interest of receiving talks on prevention of drug use, the population in the study has a high interest rate of 90.3% (n = 103), which means the importance of the same. such as curiosity, lack of intrafamilial communication, low self-esteem and being accepted by a group of friends with 78% (n = 89) that is in a relationship to world statistics. The physical sign was reduced to red eyes with 89.4% (n = 102) which is indicative for consumption at early ages. With respect