期刊名称：Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2042-4868
电子版ISSN：2042-4876
出版年度：2018
卷号：16
期号：1
页码：173-177
DOI：10.19026/ajfst.16.5952
语种：English
出版社：MAXWELL Science Publication
摘要：The objective of the study was to determine the level of food and nutritional security in families of children under 10 years of age with malnutrition attended in the program for growth and development of the hospital State Social Enterprise of Galapa (ESE Galapa) in Galapa (Atlántico, Colombia). A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample randomly selected of 170 families that attended the program during 2015, with 70% of minimum attendance required. The variables considered were, social and demographic conditions, nutritional status and level of food security. Food security status was classified using the Latin-American and Caribbean Scale of Food Safety (ELCSA) as an instrument for data collection. Forty-five-point three percent of the families presented food and nutritional insecurity, families with children in risk of malnutrition and obesity presented major trend of food and nutritional severe insecurity. The prevalence of the nutritional condition as well as the food and nutritional insecurity of this population is related directly on the parents occupation, their income and their ages, since 57.64% was unemployed, 39.41% of the parents only earn a minimum wage and 68.3% are between 15 and 30 years old. The study showed that families with boys and girls with malnutrition are on low food insecurity level corresponding to 25.9% among all.
