Plan de acción sobre parasitosis intestinal asociado al estado nutricional y anemia. Centro Infantil del Buen Vivir Niños Alegres. Tena, 2016.

Abstract

In the world parasite infection is a major cause of illness and disability worldwide ranks third as a cause of mortality, child age being the most affected. So that an investigation was conducted in a children's center of good living, the city of Tena Napo province, descriptive, observational cross-sectional, in the period January 2015 to June 2016. The universe was constituted 60 tutors and 60 children enrolled in the center mentioned above. Data collection was performed by a survey of parents of infants who collected sociodemographic variables, and also measured the level of knowledge about the subject, were also evaluated the nutritional status of children and blood samples were taken to the determination of hemoglobin. percentages according to the frequency distribution of the different variables were calculated as a measure of association Chi-square test was used to assess the relationship between parasitosis and parasitosis with anemia and nutritional status. For all analyzes a level of statistical significance of p <0.05 to 95 percent reliability was established. The main results showed predominance of males and the age of three years in children, while tutors predominated female with a primary school, the level of knowledge of parasitism was inadequate, the unknowns were accompanying symptoms of parasitosis and there was association between parasitism and anemia and nutritional status and anemia.