Proyecto sobre prevención de la obesidad infantil dirigido a los niños y niñas de la escuela fiscal mixta Mariscal Sucre. Provincia Tungurahua. Cantón Píllaro 2013.

Abstract

Childhood obesity is a health problem that is affecting not only people from our country but everyone. The goal of this research is to run the project on childhood obesity prevention in boys and girls from Escuela Fiscal Mixta Mariscal Sucre which is located in Tungurahua province, for carrying out this project different methods and techniques that contribute the improvement of the quality of life and biopsychosocial welfare were used. A knowledge and practice survey was applied and it analyzed the demographic characteristics of the group, the universe consisted of 38 children, 26 boys and 12 girls aged between 8, 9 y 10. Knowledge and practice emphasize that 74% do not know about the causes of the childhood obesity, 76% do not know the consequences, 21% do not care about the importance of taking a shower after exercising and the 16% do not wash the food before eating them. After completing the execution of the Project, it was accomplished to raise the level of knowledge in a 90% thus children can benefit to improve their health. Thanks to the support of de institutional authorities could carry out successfully. It is a recommendation to the principal of the school to run different projects in Health Promotion.