Valoración nutricional del menor de cinco años y comprensión de indicaciones del cuidador que asiste a consulta con profesional entrenado en AIEPI

In the developing countries, undernourishment is an important childhood health problem. Although, it is not registered as a basic cause of mortality, a death quota of children, younger than five years has undernourishment as an associate cause. The indices of malnutrition, the valuation of the anthropometric parameters and the responsibility of the health personnel regarding execution and management of promotion and prevention programs are important factors to analyze. This research was realized to know the effect of the Integrated Attention the Prevalent Illness of Children (IMCI) strategy in the registration and classification of the nutritional state and the understanding of caretakers of the treatment and the nourishing indications given, during consultation of Control of Growth and Development, signs of danger and consultation of pursuit. The instruments proposed by the strategy were used and observations of the consultation and a verification of the execution by the caretaker of the information given by trained and not trained professionals were made. The results indicate that in consultation with a trained professional for a 31,8%, a nutritional classification was executed and in the consultation with not qualified personnel it corresponded to 13,8%. 63% of the caretakers who attended the IMCI consultation and 58.6% without, mentioned correctly the indications when to come in search of help. The existence of difficulties in the comprehension of instructions was concluded, being related to the moment of the application of the strategy, since at the time of the research very few professionals had been trained.