Well-being and quality of life in children from San Luis popular sectors: contributions to health promotion with children from the social determination

MUÑOZ RODRÍGUEZ, MARIELA; ISON, MIRTA SUSANA

Mendoza

Workshop; Regional Workshop on Investing in Sustainable Childhoods: Implications for Preventive and Intervention Research; 2019

International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD)

The well-being (WB) and quality of life (QL) of children have been topics scarcely studied in the world. The approach to these issues has been made especially in people who have some type of disease, not in the general population (Casas, González & Navarro, 2014), a situation repeated in Argentina. In addition, in general, adults are who answered about the WB and QL of boys and girls. The purpose of this study is to contribute to scientific knowledge production on children´ mental health promotion and their disease prevention, in pursuit of a healthy and sustentable development in childhood; those considering the context and perception of children living in areas of social vulnerability. It is a descriptive study of mixed method, with concurrent nested design with qualitative dominant model (Hernández Sampieri, Fernández Collado & Baptista Lucio, 2014). One hundred and sixty children from 8 to 12 years of age participated. The design has three stages: 1. territorial socio-community diagnosis, 2. personal aspects around daily life and WB and QL, and 3. socio-community intervention. The data collection tools by stage are: 1. interviews with key informants and collective mappings with children; 2: test battery that investigates sociodemographic aspects, International Survey of Children´s Well-Being and activities of daily life; individual interviews and focus groups; and 3. Development of intersectoral instances of socio-community intervention with systematization of experiences.