Valoración de la postura de niños/as de la escuela Paulo VI programa de intervención educativa. Cuenca 2012

Abstract

This study of type Intervention Participatory Action, intended to bring the Prevention and Promotion of good posture in children of school "PAULO VI", as it is on the school stage where acquired habits and postures that can promote disorders and postural changes. To carry out this study was conducted postural assessment of children in the school for the presence and prevalence of these disorders, then appropriate treatment was performed at the same time it contributed to the development of knowledge, attitudes and practices health, getting so a healthy school community. Were evaluated and treated kinetically 100 school children "PAULO VI", during the school period 2011-2012.

The evaluation form included data on anthropometric measures such as weight, height and body mass index, as well as a postural assessment with some variables that allowed the researcher to determine the presence of postural changes. Workshops were held reinforced delivering leaflets, to measure its effectiveness were applied pre and post CAPs after each workshop participants to determine their knowledge, attitudes and practices related to health and healthy posture.

In these terms, 91% of the study population submitted postural some kind of alteration in one or more parts of his body, of which the most common concern: the shoulder forward flexion with 63%, followed by the winged scapulae 35%, back-lumbar scoliosis with 20%. Followed by other less common.