“Estado nutricional de las niñas, niños y adolescentes migrantes atendidos por las unidades móviles de Norte de Santander y su relación con la seguridad alimentaria”.

Abstract

The nutritional status of the individual should be expected as a situation that is part of a context, where multiple factors such as employment, education, income, advertising, health and the quality of life of people interact; elements that have a great impact on the integral functioning of the child and later on in his adult state. Objective: To describe the nutritional status of migrant children and adolescents aged 0 months to 17 years served by the mobile units of North of Santander and its relationship with food security. Materials and methods: Qualitative, descriptive, mixed, retrospective, cross-sectional study: The database of the mobile units of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare called "Unique Registry of Mobile Units -RUUM-" was analyzed throughout the period 2020 -2021, in North of Santander, which contains sociodemographic, anthropometric and food security information on 574 migrant children and adolescents from 0 months to 17 years of age. Results: Regarding girls and boys under 5 years of age, 63.3% have adequate weight (W/T), malnutrition in this group had a tendency to be overweight (19%). For girls, boys and adolescents from 5 to 17 years old, 70.1% are adequate according to the BMI/age indicator. Deficit (18.6%) was more prevalent than excess (11.3%). Statistical significance was found between the variables delivery of AAVN, belonging to an ICBF program, level of schooling and municipality of care (p=0.000) compared to the nutritional status variable, likewise, the variable delivery of High Nutritional Value Food is dependent on the variables age (p=0.000), level of schooling (p=0.000) and place of care (p=0.000). Conclusions: Migrant children and adolescents, regardless of their age, are in a greater proportion with adequate nutritional status according to tracer indicators. This trend also occurs in the Height for Age indicator. The permanence in a ICBF program, the delivery of the AAVN, the level of schooling and the municipality of care influence the nutritional status of children and adolescents. The delivery of the AAVN depends solely on the targeted families accepting the accompaniment by the mobile unit.