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Lifestyle and nutritional status of the elderly who attend the Manuel Sanchez Villegas Health Center - Chiclayo, 2022
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2022-12-11) Ojeda Garcia, Karolain Fiorella; Cárdenas de Fernández, María Hilda
In the present investigation, it is evident that older adults at the Manuel Sánchez Villegas health center in Chiclayo have problems in the way they live, in terms of their physical health and their diet, which can lead to a deterioration in their health. health, and thereby reduce their quality of life. Therefore, the objective of the research is to determine the relationship between lifestyles and the nutritional status of the elderly who attend the Manuel Sánchez Villegas health center - Chiclayo. For which the methodology will be applied, non-experimental, correlational, with a population of 230 older adults in the aforementioned Health Center, to which probabilistic sampling was applied, obtaining a sample of 144 older adults. To whom a questionnaire called Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II validated by Zhou et al., in 2022, and a documentary analysis guide will be applied, based on finding the BMI with respect to the measurement of weight and height, dividing the weight in kilograms by their height in square meters (kg/m2), locating said data in the medical records of the older adults mentioned, the correlation test being Kendall's Tau b, as it is an ordinal variable (Lifestyle) and another continuous (BMI). In this study, it is expected that there is a statistically significant relationship between the lifestyle and its dimensions and the nutritional status of the elderly who attend the Manuel Sánchez Villegas health center - Chiclayo.