Impact of educational intervention on pre school nutritional status. sector Wichanzao - Trujillo. 2015
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https://doi.org/10.18050/RevUcv-Scientia.v8n1a3Keywords:
Nutritional status, Educational interventions, Preschool stageAbstract
The aim of the research was to identify the impact of educational interventions on the nutritional status of children in preschool stage of Wichanzao Sector, district of La Esperanza - Trujillo during 2015. The research design used was experimental with pretest and post-test with one group or series on line, with a sample of 147 children in preschool age who were enrolled during 2015 in educational institutions of initial Sarita Colonia and Lucerito del Amanacer of Wichanzao - La Esperanza Trujillo, whose mothers attended educational interventions which consisted of workshops on nutrition and healthy lunchboxes preschool. The nutritional status of preschool before the educational intervention was 1.35%; 78.91%; 12.25% and 7.48% malnourished children, normal, overweight and obese, respectively and after the educational intervention nutritional status improved to 85.03%; 8.84% and 4.08% for normal weight, overweight and obese respectively, except malnourished children where there was a slight increase to 2.04%. Also, before the educational intervention children in preschool stage they had been normal and malnutrition by 78.91% and 21.09%, respectively; whereas after educational intervention significantly improved results as an 85.03% of children with normal nutritional status and children with malnutrition low to 14.97%. the significant favorable impact of the educational intervention on the nutritional status of children in preschool stage of Wichanzao sector, La Esperanza District - Trujillo was demonstrated by McNemar's Test, to obtain a value of significance p = 0.0389 (p <0,05).
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