Determinants of the Double Nutritional Burden of the Children of the Early Childhood Program of the Municipality of Barranquilla 2016

Herrera Yamile Del C,Borda Mariela

doi:10.19026/ajfst.14.5883

Abstract

The objective of this research is to present the determinants of the double nutritional burden in the homes of children of the Early Childhood Program of the Mayor's Office of Barranquilla. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in a sample of 295 boys and girls, selected by simple random sampling. The source of information was primary, tabulated and mechanically presented the results. The macro variables studied were the sociodemographic, economic and food characteristics, the anthropometric nutritional status, household food security and the physical activity of the mother or caregiver. The frequency of the double nutritional burden was 26.4%, which prevails in the families of mothers with an average educational level, the female head of household, mothers between 18 and 29 years old with 56.6%, the average Age was 30.0 years with a standard deviation of ±10.2 years. Children between three and four years, the mean age was 2.9 years, with a standard deviation of ±1.2 years and socioeconomic level low. Likewise, it observed that households with a double nutritional burden consume a higher proportion of carbohydrate, fat and empty calorie foods and present a degree of food insecurity in 75%. The double nutritional burden in early childhood shows a complicated situation of deficit and excess that forces us to continue looking for strategies that allow the approach of this problem in a comprehensive and intersectoral manner.

Highlights

In the study, an approach to the determinants of the double nutritional burden Fonseca et al (2014), show several transition processes in Colombia, the delay in height with 13.2% in children under five years old
Which structured by the researcher taking different sources especially the National Survey of the Nutritional Situation in Colombia (ENSIN, 2010), the Latin American and Caribbean scale of food and nutritional security and contributions of different questionnaires reviewed in Research Methodology
The BMI formula was used to determine the nutritional status of the mother and for the children, the age-related chronic malnutrition indicator used, taking into account the classification established in resolution 2465 of June 14, 2016

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Introduction

An approach to the determinants of the double nutritional burden Fonseca et al (2014), show several transition processes in Colombia, the delay in height with 13.2% in children under five years old. Overweight and obesity is a problem that affects half of the population over 18 years old, with an increase in the last five (5) years. These effects have currently generated changes to the rise of the elderly population, in the lifestyle at the level of healthy eating and physical activity, which has led to the increase of chronic noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular, metabolic among other. The demographic, nutritional and epidemiological transition are underlying factors of the so-called chronic noncommunicable diseases and in some way explain the changes that humanity is going through and that include multiple aspects of scarcity and opulence in the same population, such as explains Pasca and Pasca (2011) in his opinion article on transitions. In terms of the educational level of the mother, this study shows that the double nutritional burden occurs in higher prevalence in those mothers with an average educational level (Primary-Secondary) with 82.11%

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