Influencia de las prácticas alimentarias en el desarrollo psicomotor de los preescolares atendidos en el Centro de Salud Zamora Huayco

Abstract

Abstract: According to studies, it has been determined that the adequate development of human potential is related to nutrition even from the moment of conception, in our country according to the INEC (2017) almost 371,000 children under the age of five have malnutrition chronic and of them 90 thousand have severe malnutrition, reason that motivated us to perform a cross-sectional analytical study, in the preschool attended at the Health Center "Zamora Huayco" which had as a general objective to determine dietarypractices with psychomotor development. For this, the caregivers of the children were surveyed, obtaining that the greatest proportion of caregivers were the mothers between 20 and 35 years old, who were mostly unemployed and with secondary education. It was also obtained that food practices were in a greater proportion adequate. Through the Denver test, it was determined that the majority had a normal psychomotor development, concluding that in this study and the applied test statisticians, there is a close relationship between psychomotor development and food practices.