Estado nutricional del escolar y conocimientos sobre lonchera saludable en las madres de una institución educativa de Santa Eulalia, Lima 2022

Abstract

The objective of this research work is to identify the relationship between the state nutritional status of the schoolchild and knowledge about lunchboxes in the mothers of an institution educational of Santa Eulalia, Lima 2022. The research had a quantitative approach, design non-experimental, transversal descriptive, correlational with the hypothetical deductive method. It had a non-probabilistic convenience sample made up of 133 schoolchildren from both genders as well as 133 mothers. It began with data collection, with the record sheet nutritional evaluation and the knowledge questionnaire which was validated through a expert judgment, 87.5% and 0.782 reliability were obtained through the Alpha test of Cronbach, reflecting excellent reliability and validity. For the statistical analysis, used SPSS to establish a coefficient of relationship between the variables with the Pearson's Chi-square statistical method. The results that were obtained regarding the nutritional status of the schoolchildren were 73.7% normal and 2.3% thin; 1.5% were tall high, low 7.5% and normal 91%. About the level of knowledge about healthy lunch box in mothers it was low with 2.3%, regular with 50.4% and high with 47.4%. Finally, it was concluded that there is a relationship between the BMI/Age of the student and knowledge about lunch boxes in schools. mothers (p= 0.024), but there is no relationship between the height/age of the student and the knowledge about lunch boxes in mothers (p= 0.527) from an educational institution in Santa Eulalia, Lima 2022.