Nutrición infantil y su relación en el desempeño académico y la economía familiar en la escuela fiscal mixta "Ramos De Oliva de Echeverría", caso Machala-Ecuador 2022.

Abstract

Nutrition is a process that consists of breaking down the nutrients contained in food for the proper function of the body, growth and tissue repair. In this sense, the infant's nutrition is a very important stage where their healthy eating habits are framed, so that they can perform during the academic year, showing interest and ability to solve the problems that arise, their diet depends on the income obtained at home, which is why the family economy influences the acquisition of food, also focusing on the management and use of economic resources. For the development of the case analysis, descriptive and explanatory research was used with a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach, based on theory and numerical data through a search in databases such as Scielo, Redalyc, Dialnet, and statistics of the National Institute of Statistics and Census, in addition the instrument used is the survey, applied to 91 parents of the institution to obtain information on the incidence between child nutrition, academic performance and family economy in the Mixed Fiscal School "Ramos de Oliva Echeverría".The results of the research show that the economic income of the parents represents 56% who receive between $150 and 350 US dollars and less than $80 dollars is spent on household food, and the academic performance of the infant has a dominance of between 10 and 9 with a percentage of 35%.