[Maternal participation to improve the effectiveness of diet education in children].
OBJECTIVE
To find out whether dietetic education in children improve its effectiveness with participation of mothers.


METHODS
We made a field try.


METHODS
Two primary schools in Taco (La Laguna).


METHODS
We included every students who was in 7.o course in both schools (139 children).


METHODS
We assigned the children of one school to the educative intervention with mothers and the other school to the dietetic education without mothers. The intervention consist of four lectures about the fat food and the good feed.


RESULTS
We measured the dietetic knowledge with a questionnaire. And we made two plasmatic analysis to measure the lipidemia pre and postintervention. We excluded unauthorized children and those with more than one absence in our four classes. Both children groups showed a significative improvement in their knowledge (p < 0.05). The cholesterolaemia only decreased in the group with mothers (p = 0.01). It had a pradoxical diminishment of cholesterol HDL at the beginning was greater than 170 mg/dl, the reduction was more important yet in the group with mothers.


CONCLUSIONS
The dietetic education can have variations in its effectiveness according the method employed and people who receive it. In the dietetic education of children the inclusion of mothers improve its effectiveness.
Cabrera de León
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A
Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Pérez Méndez
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LI
Real Valcárcel
E
E
Cairo Rojas
C
C
Navarro Brito
E
E
Borges Alamo
C
C
Almeida González
D
D
Navío García
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A
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary / Q000097:blood*; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic
D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary
Participación materna para mejorar la efectividad de la educación dietética en la infancia.