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SANTOS HOLGUIN, Sonnia Apolonia  e  BARROS RIVERA, Sara Esther. Influence of Nutritional Status on School Performance in an educational institution. Vive Rev. Salud [online]. 2022, vol.5, n.13, pp.154-169.  Epub 14-Mar-2022. ISSN 2664-3243.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistavive.v5i13.138.

The nutritional status is the result of the interaction between a good diet and the nutritional contributions that they contain, allowing to compensate the demands that an organism needs for its correct functioning. This article determines the influence of the nutritional status on the school performance of the students of the Basic Educational Unit during the first half of 2019. The methodology was applied with a quantitative approach, descriptive cross-sectional and correlational design, where information was obtained through the observation, application of the instrument and anthropometric assessment to schoolchildren. The selected sample was represented by 166 students, of which those who were underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese were determined. The pre-school stage obtained an acceptable average that according to the scale of the Organic Law of Intercultural Education, if they reach among the most relevant were the underweight students with a cognitive level of 7.2 lower than the rest of the students. Regarding the school stage, the students who, according to their nutritional status, are obese were those who presented a lower cognitive level of 6.9, which, evaluated by the LOEI, were close to achieving the required learning. With these results it was determined that the nutritional status does not have a statistically significant influence on the school performance of the students of the La Libertad Educational Unit.

Palavras-chave : Nutritional condition; School performance; Feeding Habits.

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