Alimentación, actividad física y percepción de seguridad de padres de familia del barrio en donde habitan niños escolares de 9 a 12 años de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

At word level a varied and balanced feeding and the practice of physical activity are important factors for the development and well-being of the population, especially for boys and girls who are of school age. Objective: Evaluate the feeding, the level of physical activity in school children from 9 to 12 years old of a fiscal and particular educational center of the city of Cuenca; and the safety perception that parents have in the neighborhood where they live. Methodology: Descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study. We worked with 90 children from 9 to 12 years old, were belonging to a public school and a private school of the Cuenca city. The data were collected through of tablets, where there was a compilation of the validated questionnaires in the virtual platform KoboToolBox, to later be analyzed using the system for statistical analysis STATA. Results: Of the 90 children, 67% of the population are not active, of this proportion, more than half belongs to the male gender. Similar results were obtained when comparing between the 2 schools. As for the food habits there was observed that in the public school there is a significant non-compliance with the recommendations for fruit consumption (p <0.05). With respect to the safety perception of the general population, as well as public and private school, on a scale of 1 to 4 for both security and crime as well as for the aesthetics of the neighborhood and road and car safety; they found themselves at a level of 2.