Diseño de estrategia de intervención educativa sobre alimentación saludable en madres de niños menores de 5 años. Comunidad San Pedro de Ayacón, enero a junio 2016.

Abstract

The present study aimed to design an educational intervention strategy on healthy eating in mothers under 5 years of age. A descriptive, correlational, transversal study was carried out in the universe of 41 mothers at San Pedro de Ayacón community. An interview was conducted for date collection and a questionnaire was used as a tool to determine the knowledge in healthy eating. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS statistical program and included the fisher test to identify the relationship and significant difference between variables, with a significance value of p < 0, 05. In studied mothers of children under 5, the age group of 20 – 29 years was predominant in 53, 7 %, agriculture was 63, 4 %, primary education was complete 48,8%, with no mothers present higher or technical level, mothers with a relationship 87, 8%, mothers with 1 to 2 children 56, 1%. The level of unsatisfactory knowledge about healthy eating prevailed 73, 2%. A statistically significant relationship was found between knowledge and occupation p= 0, 04. It is concluded that the knowledge about healthy eating is not satisfactory. It is recommend to implement the strategy of educational intervention to acquire knowledge about healthy eating.