Diseño de estrategia educativa sobre factores de riesgo de obesidad en la población de 20 a 64 años de edad. Ciudadela 25 de abril. Centro de Salud Montalvo. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Obesity, a problem of the current era, whose figures have doubled in the last 20 years; in Ecuador, the percentage of obese people is 62.8% in the adult population in 2014 -2015, which is closely related to chronic noncommunicable diseases and is considered a pathology whose risk factors are modifiable with promotion and prevention. Materials and Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out, whose object of study was the adults from 20 to 64 years old from the citadel April 25 of the Montalvo Health Center, during the period 2018, 68 were included in the study. adults, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data was entered in a Microsoft Excel sheet and exported to the statistical program SPSS version 20 for the processing and analysis of the data, the results were represented in tables and graphs. Results: The predominant population is 30 to 39 years old, female, of primary education, of another occupation and married marital status, the level of knowledge is low, based on general knowledge criteria, and the components determined for the elaboration of the strategy the health center was 86.8%, the application of didactic talks 89.7%, in 30 minutes 95.6%, in groups of 5 to 10 people 54.4%, in the morning hours 60.3%. Conclusions: Educational intervention strategies have a positive attribution for increasing the level of knowledge in primary health care.