Parasitosis intestinal y su relación con factores de riesgo y protección en preescolares de los Centros Infantiles del Buen Vivir. Zona 7.

One of the main problems of Public Health remains the parasitic disease, the same one that affects children under five more frequently. As described, the objective of the current investigation is to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis and its association with risk factors and protecti...

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Author: Zumba Jami, Silvia Rosalía
Format: master thesis
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:Ecuador
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Loja
Repository:Repositorio Universidad Nacional de Loja
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.unl.edu.ec:123456789/18276
Online Access:http://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/18276
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:PARASITOSIS INTESTINAL
FACTORES DE RIESGO - PARASITOSIS
PEDIATRÍA
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Summary:One of the main problems of Public Health remains the parasitic disease, the same one that affects children under five more frequently. As described, the objective of the current investigation is to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis and its association with risk factors and protective factors of the demographic, socioeconomic, individual, familiar, and housing types; for which a prospective, descriptive, analytical and transversal study was performed on 423 children from 1 to 3 years of age in Zone 7 of Ecuador, obtained through stratified random sampling; with prior informed consent a survey was conducted on the parents or guardians of the child to obtain information about the participant and the family; for the socioeconomic and housing factors a survey was conducted by the Ecuadorian Institute of Statics and Censuses, and on the FF-SIL for family functionality. Anthropometric and coproparasitary evaluations were undertaken on the children. For the statistical analysis SPSS version 16 software was used. This determined the prevalence of intestinal parasitosis to be 61.9% and monoparisitosis to be 43.7%, with a predominance of pathogenic species, the main causative agent being Entamoeba histolytica, followed by Giardia Iamblia; through the Chi-Square statistical test, p-value, Cramer’s V and the OR with a CI of 95% the following were determined as risk factors for enteroparasitosis en Zone 7: residence in a rural area, medium-low to low socioeconomic status, families with more than 3 members, overcrowding, living in ranch, hut, hovel or prefabricated housing types, housing with walls of unconventional materials such as adobe, mud, coated cane, wattle & daub house, wood, or uncoated cane, lack of sewage systems and lack of refrigerator in the home; no protective factors were determined in Zone 7. Key words: prevalence, parasites, pediatrics, family and community medicine, Ecuador.