ACTITUD DE CUIDADORES Y ESTADO NUTRICIONAL DE PREESCOLARES DE FUNDACIÓN DE ASISTENCIA SOCIAL ENLACE DE GUAYAQUIL, 2019

Abstract

Preschoolers are dietary passive beings, so it is important to observe the attitudes and dietary practices of the people responsible for their nutritional care. The present descriptive, cross-sectional, non-experimental study assessed the nutritional status of a sample for the convenience of 60 preschool patients from the outpatient clinic of the Social Assistance Foundation Enlace FUNDASEN of Guayaquil. The attitude questionnaire and the Krece-Plus test were applied to 60 caregivers to determine the level of knowledge and attitudes at the time of feeding children, the nutritional status of preschoolers was evaluated through the indicators weight/age, height/age, weight/height and BMI/age. The results indicate that 85% of caregivers have bad and regular attitude, 55% of preschoolers are normal weight according to P/E index and 30% with excess weight, in relation to T/E, 80% have normal size and in terms of BMI/age, 70% are normal weight, 20% are overweight, 15% have high nutritional level and 55% average nutritional level, 65% of caregivers attended higher education and 85% have the mother as their own caregiver. No correlation was found with the proposed variables