Intervención educacional en nutrición de niños en etapa preescolar dirigida a padres de familia de los niños que asisten a la Academia Naval Almirante Illingworth de la ciudad de Guayaquil durante el período mayo 2018 - septiembre 2018.

Abstract

As we know, nutrition and good eating habits during preschool age have a big influence on the risk factors for communicable diseases in adulthood. Moreover, nutrition education intervention improves behaviors, feeding habits and nutritional status. It all starts by helping the parents to acquire the needed abilities to promote healthy habits in their families. This study’s main objective was to determine the effect of nutrition education intervention in preschool children. Methodology: This job gathers information from surveys, which makes of it a qualitative descriptive study of cross sectional observational retrospective type. The sample of the study was 20 parents whose children attend Academia Naval Almirante Illingworth School to determine the effect of this intervention their knowledge on the subject of the study was tested through KAT (knowledge, attitude and practices) surveys before and after the intervention. Results: Their knowledge before the intervention was tested by means of a two-question poll which showed 80% had a basic knowledge of nutrition. After the intervention, the results of the KAP survey were as follows; 95% “know”, 5 % “don’t know”. When comparing both variables, being these: knowledge before the intervention and knowledge after the intervention we can see there are no relation in the level of knowledge of the parents.