Factors associated with acute respiratory infection in children under five years of age. ENDES, 2017 ; Factores asociados a la infección respiratoria aguda en niños menores de cinco años. ENDES, 2017

Objective: to determine the sociodemographic factors associated with acute respiratory infection in Peruvian children under 5 years. Materials and methods: the study was a descriptive cross-sectional correlation based on a secondary analysis of ENDES, 2017. The effective sample of the study was 18 345 mothers who had children under five years of age. Acute respiratory infection of children was taken into account as the main variable and the sociodemographic characteristics of the mother were factors. For the descriptive analysis of the categorical variables frequencies and percentages were used. In the inferential analysis, Chi-square and Student's T tests were used. Results: 14.4% of the children presented acute respiratory infection. The factors significantly associated with acute respiratory infection were the wealth quintile (p = <0.001) and the region (p = 0.05). Conclusion: the study shows that 14.4% of children have an acute respiratory infection. Likewise, the lowest wealth quintile and living in the jungle region are important factors for the presence of acute respiratory infection in children under five years of age. The health personnel must take into account these findings in their promotion and prevention work on the HAIs, specifically pneumonia. ; Objetivo: determinar los factores sociodemográficos asociados a la infección respiratoria aguda en niños peruanos menores de 5 años. Materiales y métodos: estudio descriptivo correlacional de corte transversal a partir de un análisis secundario de la ENDES, 2017. La muestra efectiva del estudio fue de 18 345 madres que tení­an hijos menores de cinco años. Se tomó en cuenta como variable principal a la infección respiratoria aguda de los niños y a los factores las caracterí­sticas sociodemográficas de la madre. Para el análisis descriptivo de las variables categóricas se emplearon frecuencias y porcentajes. En el análisis inferencial se emplearon las pruebas Chi-cuadrado y T de Student. Resultados: el 14.7% de los niños presentó infección respiratoria ...