Diseño de estrategia de intervención educativa sobre hábitos alimentarios adecuados en adultos mayores. Alacao, Guano, enero a junio 2016.

Abstract

It was designed An educational intervention strategy about adequate food in older adults in the Alacao neighborhood, Guano Canton, it was designed in the period January to June of 2016, it was a descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional study. The universe was constituted by 48 older adults, in the collection of information we applied an interview with 29 questions. The questionnaire is structured in three parts; Collect data about sociodemographic and clinical variables, another identified food habits and the third is a knowledge test. The data were entered into a database prepared in Exel 2010 and analyzed with the Statistical program for social science (SPSS) version 17, the Chi square test and Fisher was used to correlate the variables with a significance level of 0.05. 43,7% (21) older adults aged 65-69 years, 62,5% (30) women, 64,5% (31) married, 35,4% (17) without any level of education, 69,7 % (33) presented normal nutritional status, 62,5% (30) they did not use dental prosthesis. Inadequate eating habits predominated with 89,5% (43) and unsatisfactory knowledge about adequate dietary habitats in the elderly with 85,4% (41). There was a significant correlation between knowledge about adequate eating habits and habits of the elderly (p=0.04). It is concluded that the knowledge about adequate eating habits in the elderly is not satisfactory, it is recommended to the Guano health center, the implementation of the educational intervention strategy that will have a favorable impact to reinforce knowledge and achieve adequate food habits.