Prevalencia de mala nutrición en los pacientes hospitalizados en el Hospital Pediátrico Alfonso Villagómez de la ciudad de Riobamba. 2015.

Abstract

This research aimed to determine the prevalence of Bad Nutrition that patients-at Alfonso Villagómez Pediatric Hospital in the city of Riobamba 2015-have. The design and type of research was no experimental, of cross-section and descriptive. Sample was 65 patients hospitalized who were older tan one year of age and with a minimun of 72 hours of hospitalization in a month. Data collection was obtained through a survey that had Socio-demographic Characteristics variables, Nutritional Status, Clinical Conditions, Biochemestry, and Attention Quality. Anthropometric Information was interpreted by the means of the Program WHO-ANTHRO v3 2.2 and WHO-ANTHRO plus v1.0.4, and information was processed through the Program JMP v5.1. Research showed that 23,1% of studied population presented nutritional problems because of déficit (9,2%) or excess (13,9%). So, overweight-obesity problem was prevalent, however, it was found that malnutrition increases during hospital stay switching from 3,1% to 9,2%, besides the 58,5% of pediatric patients have a grave losing weight during the hospitalization week. Results refuse the hypothesis proposed because the most frequent malnutrition problem in the studied population is overweight and obesity.