Conocimientos y conducta alimentaria de las madres que inciden en la malnutrición de niños menores de 5 años. San Vicente. Yaruquíes, Enero a junio 2016.

Abstract

This research´s goal was to determine the relationship between the knowledge and mother´s nutritional behavior that effects poor nutrition in children under 5 years old. We did a descritive correlational research of cross sectional. Our main target was 49 mothers with children under 5 years old from San Vicente de Yaruquíes District, Riobamba city, from January to June 2016. Data were collected by a professional interview. We used Chi Square (χ²) to determinate the relationship and significant differences between study variables, with a significance level of 0.05, and we used statistics box SPSS Version 21. The results we got were: the majority were mothers from 25 to 29 years old 34.6%, 46.9% with high school, whit a sentimental partner 85.7% and 48.9% with employment. The mother´s knowledge about infantile nutrition was under the normal such 87.7% and 79.5% showed bad food behaviors. There wasn´t a relationship statistically significant between behavior, age, and mother´s instruction. We conclude that food behavior is unsuditable and mother´s knowledge isn´t satisfactory. So it shows the importance to design educative intervention strategy to prevent infantile malnutrition with children under 5 years old.