Limiting factors of child development in children up to 5 years of age in the Battalion Community of the suburb of Guayaquil

Abstract

The article addressed the factors that limit the influence that the community exerts on child development, since this is a universal right that children possess, it is necessary to keep it in mind and act in conditions where it is not favorable. Its objective was to analyze the factors that limit the child development of children in the 0 to 5 years of age in the Suburb Battalion community in the South of Guayaquil. The results are the product of a diagnosis made in 2021 based on a research project "Influence of the Suburb Battalion community in the South of Guayaquil, on the Integral Child Development of children from 0 to 5 years old", which emerges from the Integral Child Development career of the Instituto Superior Universitario Espíritu Santo. The methodology used was quantitative research, field design, which materialized with the application of a questionnaire to the selected sample of the community under study. It was concluded that, in the community, many children have serious affective deficiencies, nutritional weaknesses, lack of care in the area of health, educational deficiencies, elements that significantly affect their child development. This requires the need for the immediate application of aid mechanisms to solve or minimize in that child, the harmful effects on his or her physical and emotional growth that are currently limiting his or her development.