Guía educativa sobrepeso, obesidad y hábitos alimentarios en adultos de la lotización Ricardo Baquero. Tena 2015-2016.

Abstract

Design of an educational guide of overweight, obesity and eating habits in adults at Ricardo Baquero neighbourhood, in Tena 2015 — 2016. Across-sectional, observational, descriptive, related study with a quantitative-qualitative approach was conducted. The total simple was constituted by 61 adults and the sample by 47, in ages between 20 and 60 years. Two questionnaires were used: the knowledge of overweight and obesity, which was made and validated; the other questionnaire was designed by Pilar Castro, in which dietary habits were evaluated for overweight / obese patients. As a result, overweight was prevalent with 68.4%, 24.6% with obesity grade I (14), 29% with age group between 30 to 39 years old (17), 66.7% female sex (38 ), 57.9% with second level of instruction (33), 54.4% occupation employed (31), and 19.3% (11) chronic disease dominant hypertension. Low knowledge of overweight and obesity was presented 66% (38). Overweight with less knowledge 68.4% (39). There was no relationship between eating habits and the level of knowledge of overweight and obesity to get a chi square higher than 0.05. For this reason, an educational guide on obesity overweight and eating habits was designed for adults at Ricardo Baquero neighbourhood . The application of the guide is recommended, in this way the community will know about the study of overweight, obesity and eating habits.