Relación entre el consumo de alimentos ricos en hierro y el conocimiento de las madres en escolares de la Escuela Particular Por la Gracia de Dios en la zona de San Eduardo de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Introduction: in most cases, iron deficiency can provoke anemia. It’s one of the main health issues in developing countries. Objective: to determine the relation between high iron content foods and the knowledge that mothers of school age children in the San Eduardo area have, in the Por la Gracia de Dios school. Materials and methods: it is a non-experimental, cross-sectional mix design, with a 67 students sample. A food frequency questionnaire was made about high iron foods and its consumption. Results: there wasn’t a relation between the two variables: knowledge of mothers of high iron foods and i’ts frecuency of consumptions, because the value of P >0,05. Conclusion: Therefore, i’ts necessary to find the main causes of non right nourishment during school age, so proposals can be made to prevent this.