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Knowledge about healthy lunchboxes according to sociodemographic characteristics of mothers of primary school children: "Centro Educativo Particular Líder Ingenieros UNI", San Juan de Lurigancho district, Lima
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2018-06-14) Siña Ticona, Esperanza Cecilia; Valencia Alvarado, Nelly Alejandra; Krederdt Araujo, Sherin Luz
Objective: determine the level of knowledge about healthy lunch boxes of mothers of primary school children at the Líder Ingenieros UNI Private Educational Center. Materials and methods: the study was quantitative, cross-sectional and descriptive. The population was made up of mothers of 114 children of both sexes at the primary level enrolled during the 2016 school year. The survey technique and the questionnaire instrument validated by Canales Huapaya were used. Results: 21% of the mothers had low knowledge, 64% medium knowledge and 15% high knowledge. It is also highlighted that in 4 of the 6 dimensions they had knowledge of low carbohydrates (53%), proteins (57%), minerals (70%). and fats (63%); He had medium knowledge of the vitamin dimension (62%) and high knowledge of the water dimension (85%). Conclusion: Mothers of primary school children have a medium level of knowledge, with a tendency toward low knowledge about healthy lunch boxes. It was observed that 4 of the 6 dimensions had low knowledge, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and fats; In the vitamin dimension they had medium knowledge and only in the water dimension did they obtain high knowledge.