Relación del estado nutricional por antropometría y el nivel de conocimientos generales sobre alimentación y nutrición en los pacientes del área de consulta externa del Hospital del Día Jipijapa IESS en el periodo noviembre a diciembre 2022.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to relate the anthropometric parameters with the level of knowledge that patients have about nutrition in people from 18 to 65 years of age who attend the outpatient area of the Jipijapa IESS Day Hospital of the Jipijapa canton in the period November - December of 2022. This is a study with a non-experimental descriptive design, with a quantitative cross-sectional approach, the questionnaire of general knowledge of food and nutrition and anthropometric parameters such as BMI, weight and height were used. The study sample consisted of 119 people who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. As a result, it is shown that 23.53% of the subjects surveyed have average knowledge about nutrition and are in the normal range of BMI. Regarding patients with low knowledge on the subject, we see that 15.13% are overweight and 4.20% mildly obese. When analyzing the number of people surveyed, it was evident that the majority of people with medium and high knowledge have a body mass index between 18.5 and 30, that is, there is not enough evidence to demonstrate that the BMI category and the level of knowledge are related.