Prevalencia de la mala nutrición y su relación con el rendimiento académico en los niños de la Escuela Julio Matovelle, período lectivo 2008-2009, Cuenca 2010

Abstract

Objective: To determine the prevalence of the three ways of bad nutrition and their relation with scholar performance of “Julio María Matovelle” school’s children who are studying 2008 – 2009 school year.

Methods and materials: We made a quantitative and transversal study. We worked with the complete universe that is of 477 children, and then we identified the cases of bad nutrition using values of BMI recommended by OMS (2007); also we obtained the cases of inadequate scholar performance analyzing the average of first and second period of three month’s qualifications of signatures as mathematics and Spanish language during 2008 – 2009 scholar period. To recollect the information we went to “Julio María Matovelle” school, where, we took anthropometric measurements and we obtained the qualifications of scholar performance. Finally the information was analyzed with EPI 2004 and Excel software. In our country there isn’t information about effects of bad nutrition in the scholar performance; for this reason that study will contribute information about the influence of bad nutrition in the scholar performance, in a society where coexist over weight and miss nutrition

Results: The way of bad nutrition with major prevalence is the miss nutrition that represents 45.02% of the universe studied, It represents with most frequency children of short age and its percentage goes decreasing when the age of the child is major. When we associate the inadequate scholar performance with bad nutrition we found a RP value of 1.40 and a X2 value of 1.96 with a confidence interval of 95% (0,86–2,26) and a p value of 0.160. So that we conclude there isn’t a statistically relation between bad nutrition and inadequate scholar performance.

Password: Miss nutrition, overweight, scholar performance.