Fatores de risco para saúde mental materna e seu impacto sobre o estado nutricional infantil

• Autor(a) principal: Paffer, Adriana Toledo
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/648
• topic: Maternal mental health; Nutritional status; Family characteristics and maternal conditions; Saúde mental materna; Estado nutricional; Características familiares e condições maternas; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO

Common mental disorders (CMD) are the result of multiple factors interaction (biological, psychological and social) and have a high prevalence, being more frequent among women. Several studies show the association between CMD and child malnutrition, particularly in the 2 first years of life, when the interaction with the mother is essential for child growth. Recent evaluations indicate that intervention focus should shift from food provision to the change of mother´s behavior. One of the approach components´ is maternal mental health. The Alagoas State semi-arid region is very poor and the population is exposed to food and nutritional insecurity. The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the association between maternal CMD and child malnutrition in children 6 to 24 months old in urban and rural environments. It will be done considering socio demographic variables and the mothers´ nutritional status. Two papers are the result of this Project. The first is entitled Factors related to mothers´ mental health in the semi-arid region of Alagoas: the role of the urban/rural environment . In this study we observed that the prevalence of CMD in the rural area was 56.2% vs 43.8% in urban area (OR = 1.03 CI 95% 0.64-1.63). Regarding urban area, education was the variable that remained significant in the logistic regression (OR = 2.2 95% CI 1.03-4.6) while in the rural area, lack of partner was the variable that remained associated to TMC (OR = 2. 6 95% CI 1.01-6.7). The second article was entitled "Mental health and maternal nutritional status of children in the semiarid region of Alagoas, Brazil. The overall prevalence of CMD was 44.3%. In mothers of malnourished children was 42.0% while in mothers of eutrophic children it was 44.6%. In the logistic regression found that the significant variables were: birth weight OR = 3.6 (95% CI 1.08-12.4) and breastfeeding OR = 6.7 (95% CI 1.76 to 25.5). In this study was not observed association between maternal CMD and child malnutrition. The high prevalence of CMD in this population may have hampered the detection of a possible association between CMD and child malnutrition. These results suggest the need to focus planning of maternal mental health care in order to reduce the burden both of mothers and their children.