Desmedro y anemia asociación con rendimiento escolar en niños y niñas de 6 a 12 años de la Unidad Educativa Pedro Carbo Guaranda-2015

Abstract

The present investigation has as aim to establish the association between th extreme thinness and anemia with the scholar performance in 291 children from to 12 years old of the Educative Educative Unit Pedro Carbo, in the city o Guaranda, Province of Bolívar, by means of a non-experimental study o transversal type. It was made the general data collecting, anthropometric biochemical and the scholar performance in where was used: scale, height rod laboratory tests; data were tabulated through the programs Microsoft Excel, WHO AnthroPlus and JMP 5.1. From the obtained data, a predominance of the femal genre was found (53%), an average age from 9.5, differences meaningfu statistically when establishing the relation between scholar performance an emaciation, so the children with emaciation and anemia presented a big percentage in regular scholar performance (68,81%) about the children with norma nutritional status that presented a low percentage of regular performance (1.26%) On the same form when establishing the relation between emaciation and anemia it was found that the children with extreme thinness are more prone to presen anemia (88,89%) in comparison with the normal nutritional status (10,98%) with which is concluded that exist an association between emaciation and anemia with the diminishing of the scholar performance. It is recommented that at the momen to evaluate the scholar performance of the children, the factors that influence directly about the same, are taken into account, being of the utmost importance such as the extreme thinness and anemia, nutritional problems that affect th intellectual development of children.