• María de Los Ángeles Paz-Morales, Alicia Martínez-Martínez, Milton Carlos Guevara-Valtier, Karla Judith Ruiz-González, Luis Arturo Pacheco-Pérez, and Rosario Edith Ortiz-Félix.
• Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, México.
• Aten Primaria. 2020 Oct 1; 52 (8): 548-554.

AimTo analyze association among family functioning, parental rearing and nutritional status in preschoolers.DesignQuantitative, descriptive and correlational cross-sectional study.LocationPreschool public institutions in Nuevo León, Mexico. Primary Care.ParticipantsSample of 228 dyads (mother or father and preschooler); sole inclusion criterion was to be main responsible for the upbringing of the preschooler.Main MeasurementsSociodemographic data questionnaire was used, nutritional status was determined based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization, Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale and Parental Rearing Style Questionnaire were used. Descriptive and Spearman's correlation coefficient were obtained.ResultsMean age of parents was 32.09 years, 60.5% of mothers were housewives and 100% of fathers had a job; mean years of schooling were 12.16, 68.9% of participants were married; 29.4% of preschoolers were overweight or obese. Regarding family functioning it was identified that 44.3% is semi-related in cohesion dimension. The parental rearing style that prevailed was the permissive with 62.3%.ConclusionsMost parents presented an imbalance in family functioning. No statistical significance was found among family functioning and parental rearing with nutritional status in preschoolers (P<.05).Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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