“Consumo de cannabis y su incidencia en el pensamiento crítico en estudiantes universitarios”

Abstract

The present investigative work measures the level of risk to suffer some type of pathology, clinical picture or disorder in relation to cannabis use, as well as critical thinking skills, the instruments used are; The Cannabis Abuse Screening Test, with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.89, was used to evaluate the level of risk for cannabis use, using the Cornell Critical Thinking Test, which measures critical thinking skills, with a ceiling of reliability of 0.87, the tests were applied online in a platform managed by the researcher, 399 university students from the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Technical University of Ambato, representing 100% of the evaluated population. Results, 26% of the population consumes cannabis and presents some type of risk of suffering from some pathology due to cannabis use, the people with the highest risk of cannabis use, the least critical thinking capacity, 42% of consumers show low critical thinking capacity, 27% of consumers present average capacity of critical thinking, and 30% of consumers present high critical thinking capacity, we must bear in mind that students with high critical thinking skills are at a level of Mild risk and those with low critical thinking capacity are at a moderate risk level and high risk to suffer a pathology due to cannabis use.