Multidimensionalidad de la calidad de vida de los niños y niñas que asisten al Centro de Desarrollo Infantil de la Universidad de Cuenca CEDIUC 2016

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To identify and describe the quality of life of children at the Child Development Center of the University of Cuenca CEDIUC, 2016. METHODOLOGY: It is a cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study of 113 CEDIUC users, a data collection form was used. The results were analyzed with the statistical package SPSS 15.00, using frequencies, percentages, chi square and probability value. RESULTS: Starting with the outcomes, the 76.1% of the total population had an inadequate quality of life associated with poor economic income, 38.1%, followed by 31.9% with precarious economic income. The 31.9% of the users presented disability and 68.1% risk factors in the development. The 63.7% had difficulties to face the cost of health, the 15.9% of users belonged to families where there was consumption of alcohol, 18.6% had underweight and 6.2% had overweight. CONCLUSION: It was found that the quality of life of children is conditioned by poverty, alcohol consumption and the presence of disability and risk factors in child development.