Diseño de una propuesta educativa en alimentación saludable, dirigido a los padres de familia de la unidad educativa santa mariana de jesús. Riobamba. 2015.

Abstract

The present titling work was carried out with the parents of the Basic One of the Santa Mariana de Jesús Educational Unit, through a sample was worked with a total of 235 parents. This research was of type descriptive study with cross-section, where a survey was carried out to to measure socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge and healthy diet and thus be able to design an educational proposal on healthy nutrition. Based on the survey applied it was possible to detect that the ages oscillate between 25 to 43 years and over, most are married to a level of education superior, in addition to having a broad and correct knowledge about what is food, healthy eating, food classification, what must contain a dish to make it nutritious and diseases of origin nutritional. As far as practices are concerned, they consumed five meals a day, in greater proportion of proteins, his eating habit consisted of consuming food healthy, but the consumption of junk food was one to two days and their food consumed them with their family. Therefore, parents should continue to enrich their knowledge, in addition the educational proposal that we have designed should be applied at the beginning of the new school year, it is also necessary to create, implement a new educational proposal, but this time aimed at the students of basic one, with the support of the School of Education for the Health of ESPOCH.