Influencia del estado nutricional en el rendimiento académico en niños de quinto grado de básica que asisten a la Unidad Educativa del Milenio Manuela Garaicoa de Calderón. Cuenca Ecuador 2023

Abstract

Identify the relationship between the nutritional status and academic performance on children in 5th grade of basic education who attend the “Unidad Educativa del Milenio Manuel Garaicoa de Calderón, the nutritional status is a pretty alterable aspect in today’s society, being extremely necessary to keep it under control, because the data on overweight and obesity in recent years are disturbing, reaching malnutrition figures of 23,2% in the population, while overweight and obesity are having an increase of 35,4% only between the population of 5 – 11 years. Therefore, its urgent to identify how this affects the cognitive state and how this would mean a decrease in academic performance in both grades and learning, as well as in the attention and interest in learning of the children. This study is an observational analytical type, in which data will be taken from the population of 5th grade of children between 8 and 10 years old, anthropometric data such as weight, height, brachial circumference, abdominal circumference; in addition to academic satisfaction surveys between the months of November – February and the analysis and interpretation of the data will be carried out between the months of March to April. After the application of the project, it will be sought to know if there is a relationship between the nutritional status and the academic performance of the students of 5th grade of basic education.