Relación entre niveles de hemoglobina y estado nutricional en niños y niñas de 3 a 5 años beneficiarios del Proyecto Compassion Internacional Guaranda 2014.

Abstract

A non-experimental research was conducted with observacional cross-sectional design to assess the nutritional status and hemoglobin levels. The study included 60 children to wich a survey was conducted to identify general characteristics; for making anthropometric measurements, a stadiometer and balance provided by the Compassion International Project for the sampling of hemoglobin used was counted with a professional private health for tabuling data on Microsoft Excel 2010 and Antro 2011 software, for the alnalysis of variables used JMP 5.1. Results on general characteristics of 65% were male and 35% were female, the maximum age was 5 years and the minimum age of 3 years. Nutritional Status 25% are in decline based on the indicator T//E in Z score the 23.33% are underweight, 68% are normal, overweigth 1.67% and 6,67% are obese based BMI//E percentiles. Hemoglobin levels 40% have anemia and 60% children do not present anemia, Socioeconomic conditions 66.7% is at a medium risck of housing, 60% is within the middle stratum, most of the mothers of the children have finished high at 35%