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Fundamento: los hábitos tóxicos en los adolescentes pueden acarrear consecuencias negativas para su bienestar por lo que se hace necesaria la orientación mediante acciones de educación para la salud. Objetivo: describir la percepción sobre hábitos tóxicos en adolescentes en unidades educativas del cantón Ambato. Métodos: se realizó un estudio descriptivo de tipo transversal con adolescentes de 5 unidades educativas del cantón Ambato. La muestra se seleccionó mediante muestreo aleatorio simple y quedó conformada por 93 adolescentes de ambos sexos. Se analizaron las variables: sexo, consumo de sustancias tóxicas, frecuencia de consumo, conocimiento sobre afectaciones a la salud derivadas de los hábitos tóxicos, experimentación de los efectos nocivos derivados de los hábitos tóxicos, necesidad de asistencia sanitaria, necesidad de adoptar hábitos de vida saludables y necesidad de capacitaciones conjuntas entre profesionales de educación y salud. La información fue recopilada mediante la técnica de la encuesta. Los datos fueron analizados mediante la estadística descriptiva (frecuencia absoluta y relativa porcentual) con la utilización del software SPSS. Resultados: el 73,11 % admitieron haber consumido alguna sustancia toxica. El tabaquismo y el alcoholismo fueron los hábitos tóxicos más frecuentes (36,56 y 25,81 % respectivamente). El consumo esporádico fue el más frecuente (40,86 %). El 96,8 % admitieron conocer cómo afectan los hábitos tóxicos. El 93,5 % declaró haber experimentado efectos nocivos. El 94,6 % de los estudiados refirieron que no era necesaria la asistencia sanitaria. El 84 % reconoció la necesidad de adoptar hábitos de vida saludables. Conclusiones: las acciones de educación para la salud acometidas en las unidades educativas no han sido efectivas. Existe la necesidad de continuar dotando de conocimientos y profundizar en los efectos y riesgos del consumo de alcohol, tabaco y drogas y la necesidad de adoptar hábitos de vida saludables. Es una necesidad que las unidades educativas puedan crear alianzas y proyectos de cooperación con las instituciones de salud de las comunidades donde se encuentran enmarcadas.

Foundation: cervical cancer emerges as a relevant concern, given its high incidence and impact on women's health, on a global scale. In recent years, in Ecuador, there has been an increase in new cases of cervical cancer. Objective: identify the relationship between some risk factors for cervical cancer according to the degrees of aggressiveness. Method: an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study was carried out. The population was made up of 224 patients from a hospital in the Amazon region of Ecuador. To identify the relationship between the variables age and body mass index, the analysis of variance test was used, while the X2 test was used for the variables: family history and smoking. Results: 3 patients with grade 1 of cervical cancer; 97 patients with grade 2 and 124 with grade 3, were identified. 62,05 % were 35 years old or older, 69,64 % of the patients were overweight or obese, 49,11 % had a family history of cervical cancer and 51,34 %, smoking. An association was found between the degree of aggressiveness of cervical cancer and body mass index (F = 3,440; p = 0,034), family history of cervical cancer (X2 = 10,618; p < 0,005) and smoking (X2 = 18,109; p < 0,001). Conclusions: a higher incidence of cervical cancer was found in women over 35 years of age. Factors such as body mass index, family history of cervical cancer and smoking showed a relationship with the grade of cancer.

Foundation: sexual life disorders can negatively affect self-esteem and social relationships, especially in patients undergoing gynecological surgery and oncological treatment. Objective: to evaluate sexuality in women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, with central interest in changes in sexual function, sexual desire, sexual satisfaction and sexual problems related to the disease and its treatment. Method: a descriptive and correlational, longitudinal and retrospective study was carried out that covered the period from 2018 to 2021. The population under study were female patients from the gynecological outpatient clinics of a private hospital. A total of 187 patients were included as study objects. The sample corresponded to the universe. The fundamental technique for data collection was the questionnaire. Several anonymous and voluntary instruments were applied: Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire, Beck Depression Scale and Sense of Quality of Life Questionnaire. Nominal qualitative variables were defined to establish sociodemographic characteristics (age, sex, marital status, educational level, race and occupational level) and quantitative variables to define the attributes of the members according to their situation before treatment (time elapsed since diagnosis and amount according to type of treatment). The data obtained were subjected to statistical analysis, including correlation calculations using Cramer's V coefficient. Results: a relationship was found between sexual satisfaction and all areas of quality of life in patients undergoing oncological treatment. The strongest relationship was with the subjective sphere of the patients. A significant association was also observed between the absence of depressive symptoms and sexual satisfaction, in addition, a significant deterioration in sexual satisfaction in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Conclusions: the significant impact of depression on sexual satisfaction supports the need to address depressive symptoms to improve patients' sexual sphere. The inclusion of a psycho-oncologist in the healthcare system could contribute to a faster recovery of patients in their normal sexual life.