@article{Quesada Acuña_Pérez Gómez_2020, title={The video as a tool to change perceptions and knowledge about snakes in adults with a high academic level in Costa Rica }, volume={12}, url={https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/3033}, DOI={10.22458/urj.v12i2.3033}, abstractNote={<p><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">Introduction:</span></span> <span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">Snakes suffer persecution by humans for misperception, misinformati</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">on, and fear. In addition, snakes </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">are threatened by habitat decline, which leads them to seek new territories, favoring human-snake encounters. In Costa Rica these threats also exist in the inhabitants of the city, even in those with a high academic level. To favor the conservation of snakes, it is necessary to implement environmental education strategies aimed at a specific target audience. One possible tool is the creation and dissemination of educational videos, which increase knowledge and improve decision-making for their conservation.</span></span> <span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">Objective</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">: Evaluate the effectiveness of an educational video as a tool to change the perception and knowledge about snakes in adults of high educational level in Costa Rica. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">Methods</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">: </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">We worked with 340 officials from the UNED headquarters, to whom we had applied an initial diagnosis in 2019. We separated the same participants into two groups: 240 officials received an educational video on snakes from the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) that we generated for them and 100 officials received a journalistic video as a control group. Finally, we evaluate their responses in a comparative way with re</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">spect to the previous diagnosis</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">Results</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">: </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">After observing the respective video, 75% of the officials maintain their perception of snakes and 68% would act in the same way in case of an encounter. However, 51</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">,</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">5% showed improvement in their general knowledge about snakes, showing dependence on the video observed.</span></span> <span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">Conclusions</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">: </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW151939142 BCX4">The educational video improved the general knowledge about snakes, but the environmental education effort has to face a high percentage of disinterest on the part of the population, which is a challenge for the conservation of snakes.</span></span></p>}, number={2}, journal={UNED Research Journal}, author={Quesada Acuña, Sergio Gabriel and Pérez Gómez, Gabriela}, year={2020}, month={Oct.}, pages={e3033} }