Evaluación de la malnutrición de acuerdo a la situación de empleo de los adultos de 30 a 59 años de Gualaceo Azuay período noviembre 2021 - mayo 2022

Abstract

Background: The adult from 30 to 59 years old is the economic breadwinner of the household; The probability of malnutrition in this age group is increasing due to the global economic crisis, adding unemployment worsens the nutritional situation and intervenes in healthy eating. Objective: To evaluate malnutrition according to the employment situation of adults aged 30 to 59 years in Gualaceo, Azuay. Period November 2021 - May 2022. Methodology: A descriptive correlational study was carried out in 375 adults, including men and women aged 30 to 59 years, adults residing in urban and rural parishes of the Gualaceo canton, who signed the informed consent. Anthropometric measurements were taken and the permanent statistics management survey was applied in households. The results were analyzed in SPSS 27.0, measures of central tendency (mean), dispersion (standard deviation) and frequency distribution were used. To determine association, a prevalence ratio with a 95% confidence interval was used, and its p value was used for statistical significance. Results: it was found that 67.93% presented malnutrition due to excess with a predominance of overweight of 38.19%, malnutrition due to obesity had a statistically significant association with unemployment with one (PR 2.26) (95% CI 1.72-2.9 p = <0.001). Conclusion: The majority of the population has malnutrition with overweight or obesity with 67.93%, there was a statistically significant association between malnutrition and employment status, obesity is more common in unemployed people.