Factores de riesgo asociados a la malnutrición por defecto en niños de 1 a 4 años, en cuanto consultorios. Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Malnutrition in children is a health problem. Materials and Methods: A relational research level study was carried out to associate the risk factors with the nutritional status in children from 1 to 4 years old in children, in four clinics of the Pascuales health center, in 2018. Observational type , transversal, and prospective and analytical. The information was processed to obtain the results in number and percentages. Results: Malnutrition status by default predominates with 160 children with 63.49%. Within the education level of the mother, the secondary predominated with 138 (54.76%). Water consumption is inadequate, with a total of 131 (51.98%). There is a high poverty rate with 122 (48.41%). There is statistical association of nutritional status with low birth weight with a p 0.025 Conclusions: According to the sociodemographic variables, the two-year-old children, the female sex and the mestizo race predominated. Malnutrition by default was the nutritional status that was mostly presented. There was statistical association between low birth weight, non-breastfeeding with complementary feeding after six months of age, poor number of meals in the day and high frequency of diarrheal diseases with malnutrition by default.