Consumo de lactancia materna y perfil antropométrico en preescolares de la guardería Bahía, de la ciudad de Guayaquil en el periodo 2018-2019.

Abstract

The objective of this degree work is determine the influence of breast milk consumption on the anthropometric development in preschool children of the Bahía nursery in the city of Guayaquil in the period 2018-2019. For which a theoretical review has been carried out on the variables under study, the legal framework was also analyzed to register a systemic review. The applied methodology had a quantitative - descriptive approach with a non-experimental - cross-sectional methodological design, the population was personalized by preschool children from 1 to 3 years of age who attended the “Bahía” nursery and the sample was defined by 70 preschoolers. The main results showed that the largest number of participants who have an adequate weight are children who drink only breast milk, 35.71%, in contrast to children who have a mixed diet, only 27.14% have an adequate weight. The value of the chi-square variable in which is 8.131 which shows that there is an incidence between the 2 variables analyzed.