Diseño de estrategia de intervención educativa sobre prevención de la desnutrición infantil en madres de niños menores de cinco años. Comunidad Shobol Llinllin, enero a junio 2016.

Abstract

To determine the knowledge about the prevention of child malnutrition, in mothers of children under five. A descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study was conducted in the community of Shobol Llinllin, San Juan parish, in the period of January-June 2016. Fifty-eight (58) mothers of children under five years of age were interviewed, applying a questionnaire validated by a group of experts, and data from the clinical records of this community. The information analyzed was with the SPSS 17 and for comparison between groups, of used the Chi-Square test. The level of meaning used was 5% (p<0.05). The 48,3% (28) of the mothers were found in the age group between 16 and 24 years of age. The 39,7% (23) of the mothers reached the unfinished basic level and the 55,2% (32) had a couple relationship. The knowledge not satisfied predominated in 58,6% (34). There was no statistically significant relationship between the knowledge, malnutrition and selected demographic factors. Although the presence of malnutrition was higher in children of mothers with unsatisfactory cognition, with 56,9% (33). The educative intervention strategy in this population was successful, the same one that allows to raise the knowledge of the mothers of children under five years to reduce the prevalence of child malnutrition.