Abstract

SOLDAN RICARDO, Sevilla Paz et al. Community integral multidimensional strategy in chronic malnutrition . Gac Med Bol [online]. 2019, vol.42, n.1, pp.38-46. ISSN 1012-2966.

Objective: to evaluate the multidimensional strategy CLAPSEN at a biological, cognitive, social and environmental level in children with chronic malnutrition. Methods: descriptive study and longitudinal follow-up over 53 children had mild, moderate and severe growth retardation entered into the new multidimensional model of community intervention: Clinical, Laboratory, anthropometric, psychology, Educational and nutrition (CLAPSEN). The weight, height, head circumference, brachial perimeter, triceps skinfold of the study population, in addition to extracting a blood sample for lab and ultrasound exams of the thymus at the beginning and end of the intervention was determined. After deworming of the selected population, the monitoring was carried out for eight months with the CLAPSEN. Results: the children recovered the following biological and nutritional conditions, with the following results: growth from -2.11 ± 0.7 to 0.6 ± 0.3 (p≤0.001)), anemia of 10.4 ± 3 , 3 g / L to 12.5 ± 1.21 g / L (p≤0.001) the nutritional proteins improved, the inflammatory proteins decreased, the immune response improved, reflecting on the thymus surface of 391.3 ± 91 mm2 at 909.4 ± 140.9 mm2 (p≤0.001). Conclusions: the CLAPSEN  strategy from a unified multidimensional vision was useful to recover the delay in growth and development, for the control of possible chronic diseases and to improve the environment in which the child lives in a relevant way for the time that the study lasted.

Keywords : comprehensive care; malnutrition; growth.

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