Nutritional status, socio-economic condition and intestinal parasites in pre-school children, Barinas State, Venezuela.

The objective was to determine the relationship between nutritional status, socioeconomic condition and intestinal parasites in pre-school children, Barinas state, Venezuela. A non-experimental design, field, descriptive and crosssectional study was done. The sample consisted of 53 children who met inclusion criteria and whose parents gave informed consent. We used a data collection sheet composed of four sections: pre-school children identification, anthropometry, socioeconomic and parasitological data. The average age of the preschoolers was 4.13 +/- 0.8 years, male sex predominated (58.5%), 56.6% of the sample had a normal nutritional status, there was 22.6 % of parasitism by Giardia lamblia and Blastocystis hominis, in reference to nutritional status and socioeconomic condition it was found that in the social stratum workers, 50.9% of the sample had normal nutritional status (28.3%) and under the standard (20.8%), in the middle stratum, 39.6% of the sample had normal nutritional status (24.5%), showing that there is a significant statistical relationship between the two variables (p = 0.011) as well as between parasitism and socioeconomic condition (p = 0.029), there was no statistically significant relationship between nutritional status and parasitism.