Identificación de la impulsividad como factor de riesgo del consumo de sustancias sujetas a fiscalización, en personas privadas de libertad del Centro de Rehabilitación Social Sierra-Centro (Latacunga) mediante la escala Barratt en el año 2019.

Abstract

This research entitled “Identification of impulsivity as a risk factor for the consumption of substances subject to control, in persons deprived of liberty of the Sierra-Center Social Rehabilitation Center (Latacunga), using the Barratt scale in 2019”, arises before the need of the National Service of Comprehensive Attention to Adult Persons Deprived of Liberty and Adolescents Infringers (NSIA), to have information about the substance use habits of persons deprived of liberty (PDL) and the psychosocial factors that induce that consumption, among which is the impulsivity. The process of this research was divided into three parts: first the conformation of a sociodemographic record and the reagent used, of which the Barratt scale was part, which measures in people, total impulsivity and its three dimensions: motor, cognitive and non-planner; in a second moment, data collection instruments were applied, in a single journey and finally, an analysis of the affected data was made countered with the literature investigated from various authors. The results of the analysis show that cognitive and unplanned impulsivity are the most problematic types of impulsivity in the investigated population and that the relationship between substance use and impulsivity as a psychosocial risk factor wasn’t significant.