Characteristics associated with post-pandemic nutritional status in schoolchildren from an educational institution in Huánuco, Peru

• Autor: Céspedes Espinoza, Jhenifer Carmen
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad de Huánuco
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad de Huánuco
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.localhost:article/545
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.udh.edu.pe/index.php/RPCS/article/view/545
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: estado nutricional; índice de masa corporal; pandemia; malnutrición; obesidad; nutritional status; body mass index; pandemic; malnutrition; obesity

 Objective. To determine the relationship between general characteristics and post-pandemicnutritional status in schoolchildren from an educational institution in Huánuco, Peru. Methods. A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study with a comparative descriptive design. The population consisted of 228 students, and the sample included 143 students, to whom a validated questionnaire and a registration form were applied. Fisher's exact test and Kendall's Tau-b were used for inferential analysis. Results. It was found that 25.2% (36) of the students were overweight and 3.5% (5) were obese. A significant relationship was also found between the frequency of food consumption and nutritional status (p-value = 0.001). Conclusion. It is concluded that there is a signifcant relationship between the frequency of food consumption and the nutritional status of schoolchildren.