Food difficulties in children from 1 to 5 years and their risk factors. Cuenca 2012-2015.

Children have poor nutrition for: non -access, lifestyles, emotional difficulties, caregivers anxiety. After the validation of a short questionnaire for the level I of Primary Health Care with an analytical study of controls, in the Child and Public Development Centers and the Centers of the Ministry of Public Health from October 2012 to March 2014, children will be classified from 1 to 5 years of age at: With and without food difficulties and the relationship with risk factors will be studied: Psychological anguish of the family caregiver, nutritional status, nutritional status, behavioral problems, behavioral problems and delays. Of boys and girls. The mating will be by age, sex, type of center. The validation of the questionnaire will be carried out in a random sample calculated with sensitivity and specificity of 90%, alpha of 5%, Z of 1.96, prevalence of 40%food difficulties in children: 345 to find 138 children with food difficulty and 138 without difficulty. Analysis: Sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and verosimilitude reason. For the analytical study: sample of 307 cases and 307 controls, 95% trust, 80% power, or: 2, control relationship 1: 1, and with 10% frequency delays of psychomotor development in children controls. The validated questionnaire will be used to identify the cases, the SRQ-OMS questionnaire for the psychological anguish of the main caregiver, the Conners scale for children's behavior problems, Brunetlezine test for the delay of psychomotor development. In the analysis of the mummium ratio: Rm = 1 there is no association, RM = 1 risk factor; 95%confidence intervals, significance (p

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