ASOCIACIÓN ENTRE NIVEL DE INSTRUCCIÓN ACADÉMICA DE LOS PADRES Y ESTADOS NUTRICIONAL DE ESCOLARES DE LA UNIDAD EDUCATIVA GONZALO RUALES. PICHINCHA

Abstract

Education is determinant in the nutritional status and this in turn influences the morbi - mortality that modifies the quality of life of the individual and his community. With the aim of assessing the association between the level of academic instruction of parents, with the nutritional status of their school children, a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in an Educational Unit in the province of Pichincha, in which of the total of 151 students, 93 met the inclusion criteria. The data was analyzed in SPSS using frequency tables and association measures. IMC of the students was interpreted and a survey was applied to the parents; When analyzing the results it is concluded that the predominant nutritional status among students was normal 75.3%, 21.5% are overweight and 3.2% are deficient. The level of instruction of mothers (51.6%) and parents (55.9%) predominant is secondary. The association between the level of academic instruction of parents (p = 0.83) and mothers (p = 0.23) with the nutritional status of the children was not statistically significant, which suggests that a higher level of academic instruction in the Parents are not associated with a better nutritional status in school-age students of the Gonzalo Ruales School in 2017. Studies are recommended in more extensive and diverse populations. Thus, academic instruction is not a synonym or guarantee of nutritional education. A proposal for a nutritional education workshop is presented to the Institution.