Factores de riesgo asociados a la desnutrición en el niño menor de un año de la población de cinco consultorios del Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Child malnutrition is the result of insufficient food intake, lack of adequate care and the emergence of infectious diseases. 45% of child deaths are associated with malnutrition. In Ecuador, one in four children suffers from chronic malnutrition, a problem that is more evident in girls. Materials and Methods: Observational, retrospective, transversal, analytical and relational research, by means of a survey prepared by the author with 120 children under one year to obtain data that allow to know the risk factors for malnutrition in the infant. Results: of 100 infants in the study, 52 were female and 48 were male, 76% had an adequate nutritional diagnosis, 18% had acute malnutrition, 6% presented chronic malnutrition, 25 children abandoned breastfeeding early, 32% of children started complementary feeding early, 52% presented an adequate family socioeconomic level. Conclusions: the most important risk factors associated to malnutrition were identified in the youngest one year old, the early abandonment of maternal lactation, and the family economic level.