ESTADO NUTRICIONAL EN PACIENTES CONSUMIDORES DE DROGA QUE SE ENCUENTRAN AISLADO EN EL CENTRO DE RECUPERACIÓN ESPIRITUAL Y FAMILIAR DE “LA PUERTA DE ALGHANDI” DE LA CIUDAD DE PORTOVIEJO OCTUBRE 2013-MARZO 2014.

Abstract

Drug use is a social problem of great importance, the drugs generate a difficult addiction to overcome individually, the drugs cause serious conflicts in the family, relationship, school, work, physicists and others. Also negatively influence the nutritional status because the consumers have some problems of malnutrition because they generally have an irregular, sparse, unbalanced and without order alimentation. For this reason the project’s objectives was to determine the nutritional status of the patient consumer of drugs who are isolated in the “Centro de Recuperación Espiritual y Familiar "LA PUERTA DE ALGHANDI”” Portoviejo, October 2013- March 2014. This research diagnosed purposeful, is based on a nutritional assessment center patients, taking as reference their nutritional status, types of drugs they consumed, eating habits, physical and sociocultural characteristics. As a result of this diagnose the majority of the population evaluated, so, 54.5% has a normal body mass index, 36.4% is reaching the limits of overweight and only 9.1% is underweight. Taking as reference the conclusions and recommendations, the proposal was to develop a food informational guide for rehabilitation patients with substance abuse problems.