Browsing by Author "Bernales Amaya, Ingrid Carolina"
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Item Análisis del índice de masa corporal y factores desencadenantes del sobrepeso/obesidad antes, durante y después de la pandemia por covid-19 en una población escolar del valle del cauca: estudio de cohorte retrospectiva.(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2023-04-24) Bernales Amaya, Ingrid Carolina; Orjuela Santiago, Laura Melissa; Giraldo, Jiménez, Maria Fernanda (Directora)The COVID-19 pandemic has been a great challenge for the child population, the abrupt changes in daily life greatly affected their physical and emotional state, generating situations that are probably the cause of an increase in the body mass index (BMI) causing the population to be outside their normal weight range according to age. During and after confinement, children reach levels of overweight and obesity, and even remain within these ranges. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted in a population of 130 school-age children between 7 and 11 years of age in the municipality of El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, with a sample of 98 children. Outcomes: The results obtained show evidence of how COVID-19 confinement influences the increase of BMI in children. Conclusions: The BMI of children aged 7-11 years before, during and after the pandemic had an important variability with a predominance of a BMI in overweight ranges between the ages of 7 to 11 years and it was proved that parents consider lack of physical activity, stress, anxiety and high carbohydrate diet as triggering factors of the same.