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Nutritional educational strategy for chronic non-communicable diseases of people deprived of liberty

Abstract:

In addition to offering certain rights, prisons must provide protection and promotion of health and rehabilitating people. A quasi-experimental investigation was conducted with 278 people deprived of liberty from the maximum security pavilion of the Cotopaxi Social Rehabilitation Center-Ecuador. Establish a promotional strategy aimed at nutritional status. a sample of 163 individuals was established using a simple random probabilistic test. The planned actions were implemented for four months, measuring the variables of interest before and after the application. The average age of the participants was 38 to 56 years; the majority self-identified as mestizos (46.63%) and with a primary school level (50.1%). 53.37% did not suffer from non-communicable chronic diseases. The variables measured during the pretest and posttest showed significant differences between both moments with coincident values of p=0.02. The result of the promotional strategy referring to the good nutritional status that was implemented was established through the McNemar test, which allowed to determine changes in the consumption of healthier foods, regular physical exercise and the scope of an index body mass within normal parameters.