El bajo rendimiento escolar y su relación con la malnutrición y conducta en los niños del primero y segundo año de educación básica de la escuela Zoila Aurora Palacios Cuenca. 2013

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship of poor academic performance with malnutrition and behavioral problems of students from first and second grades from Zoila Aurora Palacios School. METHODOLOGY: This is a cross-sectional quantitative study of prevalence in all students (n = 184) of the first and second grade from the fiscal school. Poor school performance was considered when the year’s grade point average (GPA) had a score <7. Nutritional status was assessed by anthropometry and tables WHO, and for determining behavioral problems Conners Scale was applied to teachers. Parents of children signed consent for children. The tabulation and analysis were performed in Microsoft Excel 2012 and SPSS 2008 1.7.0.0. RESULTS: The 66.3% of the analyzed population is male, 1.09% have poor school performance. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is 6 %, 13% overweight and 2.2 % obesity. Poor academic performance with poor nutritional status relationship was found (OR: 3.97 IC: 95%: 0.71 - 1.28 p= 0.0198), together with behavioral problems (IC: 4.33 -2.33 RP 0 p= 0.0198). CONCLUSION: The frequency of poor performance was 1.09 %, although statistically significance relationship between poor school performance with nutrition, and poor school performance with behavioral problems were found; the few cases of poor performance cannot conclude this significance as dependent. .

KEYWORDS: MALNUTRITION, CHILDHOOD OBESITY, PERFORMANCE NUTRITION IN CHILDREN BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS