Family functioning and its impact on the academic performance of nursing students

Abstract

Family functioning is considered as the set of interactions that allow us to face various crises. Academic performance is the result of the teaching-learning process that is involved in the knowledge learned in said process and how it is incorporated into their behavior and that could be mediated by family functioning. The objective of the research was to determine the influence of family functioning on the academic performance of nursing students at the Technical University of Ambato. It was carried out under a quantitative, descriptive, ambispective and correlational approach. The sample was made up of 286 students enrolled in the period from March to September 2024. For the diagnosis of family functioning, the ff-sil questionnaire was used and academic performance was analyzed according to the evaluation scale of the evaluation regulations of the aforementioned institution. As a result, it was found that there is no association between academic performance and family functioning with p 0.504 > 0.05, however, students from complete nuclear families predominated (56.6%), which represents a family structure considered a positive support network. The need for a new study on the factors that impact the academic performance of nursing students was demonstrated.