Estado nutricional, ingesta alimentaria y rendimiento escolar de los niños y niñas de la Escuela Fiscal Mixta Primera Constituyente del cantón Riobamba provincia de Chimborazo, 2012

Abstract

This is an investigation of traverse type not experimental to determine the Nutritional status, food intake and school performance of children of the Primera Constituyente school. By means of survey biological and socioeconomic characteristics, anthropometry, food intake and school performance were measured; the data were tabulated by means of the programs Microsoft Excel, JMP5. Biological and socioeconomic characteristics of the group between 9 and 14 years old, 41 are women and 37 are men. The popular stratum prevails under (87%) followed by the middle stratum (7,2%) and high populat stratum (5,1%). The nutritional status of the study group, by means of the use of anthropometry indicators, 84,6% live with an appropriate nutritional status, 15,4% with low height, 5,1% low weight and 7,7% with overweight. The quality of the diet using the survey of consumption frequency and reminder of 24 is observed that 1,3% of elementary student live with very low dietary energy consumption in their diet in front of 7,7% of scholars that present overweight that take a high energy consumption corresponding to their feeding. The students with an appropriate nutritional status maintains a better average, less days of absenteeism than those that live with problems of low weight and low height. The results confirm the hypothesis when finding that the nutritional status is related with the food intake and the school performance of children of the “Fiscal Mixta Primera Constituyente” school.