Ancestral and traditional knowledge in midwives of the cañar parish. An instrument for your measurement

Abstract

Introduction: Traditional midwives are women who learn, generationally, skills to attend a natural birth from natural medicine. However, these practices lack attention at the time of any complication for both the baby and the mother Objective: to validate the quantitative and qualitative instruments that will allow us to identify the ancestral and traditional knowledge in midwives of the Cañar parish in the period June 2020, to June 2021. Materials and method: Mixed research quantitative and qualitative. Field-type, cross-sectional, evaluative, non-experimental design. The population is made up of 20 midwives from the Cañar parish, aged between 25 and 75 years. Results: The qualitative instrument showed an average of total reliability of its three categories of 89.8, which plas: ces it in the category of very reliable and in the quantitative instrument an average reliability of 91.2 was obtained, which indicates that it is located in the very reliable category. Conclusion: The results show that the instruments are suitable, reliable and valid to measure the independent variable, and its correlation with the dependent variable, fulfilling the general hypothesis of this research