Open AccessRelación entre el estado nutricional de niños de kínder y primero básico de dos colegios municipales de la Región del Maule y la percepción de sus padres sobre la Actividad Física y Hábitos Alimentarios
Author(s) -
César Faúndez-Casanova,
Eleazar Falcón Canales,
Nicolás Silva Moya,
Vanessa Vergara Peredo,
Víctor Hugo Contreras Mellado
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ciencias de la actividad física
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0719-4013
pISSN - 0717-408X
DOI - 10.29035/rcaf.22.2.2
Subject(s) - overweight , body mass index , obesity , gerontology , physical activity , healthy eating , psychology , medicine , demography , physical therapy , endocrinology , sociology
The present study used the recommendations of the World Health Organization to measure nutritional status, doing so through the body mass index. The purpose of the study is to relate the nutritional status of kindergarten and first grade students from two municipal schools in the Maule region with the eating habits and physical activity perceived by the parents. 87 kindergarten and first grade students were evaluated. The results show that in kindergarten overweight and obesity reached (76.2%) respectively, and in first grade an overweight and obesity of (70.6%), however, no greater relationship was found between knowledge of the parents of the importance of physical activity in the life of their children and their nutritional status as well as in the eating habits that they reported of their children in relation to nutritional status. Students are in a nutritional state of risk and the perception of parents is low in terms of the knowledge they have regarding the practice of physical activity and eating habits, being directly related to the poor nutritional status that they present.