FACTORES DE RIESGO QUE INFLUYEN EN EL ESTADO NUTRICIONAL EN NIÑOS MENORES DE DOS AÑOS ATENDIDOS EN SUBCENTRO DE SALUD COLÓN PORTOVIEJO ENEROA JULIO DEL 2006

Abstract

We did a prospective and descriptive study, where work’s universe corresponded to 568 children under two years old, on which we obtained a sample of 30% from questioned universe to 170 parents of family, children under two years old attended in the Subcentro de Salud de Colón Portoviejo from January to July of 2006 where the studied the stated variables and executed with the purposed objectives. The information was obtained though investigations on which are some characteristics of the parents such as: origin, instruction, marital status, occupation, social economic level, and about the child, personal antecedents, taken medial attention, some pathology more frequent, nutritional state, physical aspects, kinds of feeding, hygiene habits. We investigated work told us, that the attended sex with more frequence was the masculine within the ages 13-24 months with a 42.2% and the feminine with a 42.1% within the ages 7-12 months, pathologies more frequence in a child are IRA 26,6 and EDA 31% some feeding that most consume this community is the plantain with a 205 milk 14% and some rice 21,5 and they receive a feeding of three daily foods with a 82,5% and mothers go with a frequence of a 37% to some controls every month, the occupation of their parents, the most usual is the agriculture with a 61% and at the same time some home’s chores, the monthly income of their parents is under 10 dollars with a 50%. The result of this study allow us to determine that they do with more frequence, some addresses visits by the students and some nursing personal in order to carry out better examination of the conditions on which some babies under two years old, develop themselves.