Estrategias para disminuir la malnutrición en niños de 1 a 3 años del Centro Infantil Buen Vivir Los Alfaritos.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to reduce the incidence of malnutrition by default in children aged 1 to 3 years. To comply with this, a comprehensive intervention was implemented in children aged 1 to 3 years and their mothers. Questionnaires were applied to determine general characteristics and knowledge about healthy nutrition. The Ranges with Wilcoxon Signs test and the McNemar test were used to determine changes in the level of knowledge, eating practices and presence of malnutrition. There was a predominance of girls (68.2%), who attend an annual consultation (68.2%), 34.8% presented comorbidities. It was found in mothers who had a low level of knowledge about healthy nutrition. At the beginning of the investigation, 43.9% of children with malnutrition were found, after the intervention only 19.7%. It is concluded that the integral intervention applied caused changes in the prevalence of malnutrition by default of children aged 1 to 3 years and in the level of knowledge and nutritional practices in mothers included in the research. It is recommended to expand the research sample to other preschool and school ages where alterations in children's nutritional status, including other communities and parishes, are also frequently reported.