“La lactancia materna exclusiva y la lactancia artificial en el desarrollo evolutivo de los niños/as de 3 a 6 meses que asisten al “centro de salud san miguelito tipo a”

Abstract

The development of this research project was carried out in the San Miguelito parish of the Pillaro city, with a population of 50 children between 3 and 6 months old who attended the San Miguelito type A health center, of which 25 received breastfeeding exclusive and 25 artificial lactation during the period March- August 2018, this study aims to determine if exclusive breastfeeding and artificial lactation influence the evolutionary development of this population, basically it was descriptive, comparative and cross-sectional, the evaluation instrument was the Denver Developmental Screening Test II suitable for the population under study. The results obtained and the statistical analysis through the X2 test (Chi-square) showed that there is a statistically significant association between exclusive breastfeeding and artificial lactation at the level of development with X2(2)= 7,467, p<0,05, also the Mann-Whitney U test showed that there is a statistically significant difference 0.015 (p <0.05), therefore, children fed exclusively breastfeeding achieved a better level of development, while the group fed with lactation artificial evidence a high level of abnormal development.