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This article makes a diagnosis about distractors and problems presented by students during virtual classes in the confinement caused by the COVID-19. A non-experimental ex-post-facto methodology was used, and an ad hoc questionnaire was applied to 60 students from a higher education institution in Ecuador. Data were summarized using descriptive statistics and tests of association were performed. Subsequently, a logistic regression model was fitted to explain the number of distractors as a function of predictors. Students identified several technical problems and a myriad of distractions when receiving remote classes at home. No association was found between variables, but a high presence of distracters was determined, regardless of career, gender, age and type of device. The number of distracters to which students were exposed reflects a possible ecosystem of negative impacts on the learning process during online classes.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: In the attempt to reactivate the economy after several months of the pandemic generated by COVID-19, several South American countries have been forced to attenuate the restriction measures created to prevent contagion, leaving all the responsibility to citizens to safeguard their lives. Faced with this situation, the objective of the work was to promote good prevention practices against COVID-19 in the general population to avoid the collapse of the public health system. METHODS: An exploratory review on prevention measures against COVID-19 was carried out in the databases Elsevier, Pubmed, Wiley, Scopus, Scielo and, in general, in academic Google, to obtain gray information. RESULTS: The role of seven individual protection and prevention measures and barriers to stop the advance of community infections by COVID-19 were described and analyzed. Studies showed that the use of preventive measures can play a critical role in containing the pandemic. However, they can also provide a false security of protection, predisposing to neglect the correct use and handling of all containment measures. CONCLUSIONS: Given the drastic rise in infections and deaths from COVID-19 in Latin America, it becomes necessary to continue with biosecurity campaigns so that citizens are clear that prevention is an integrated process and that the use of one measure does not replace another.