Ações de educação alimentar e nutricional no Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Géssica Mercia de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000dnb0
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4261
• topic: Educação alimentar e nutricional; Alimentação escolar; Nutricionista; Food and nutrition education; School feeding; Nutritionist; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO

This study aimed to analyze the actions of food and nutrition education at the National School Feeding Programme in Brazilian towns. It is a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study, conducted through telephone interviews during the period from April 2012 to November 2013. The survey was developed with school feeding’s nutritionists from 388 towns distributed proportionally between the North, Northeast, Southeast, South and Midwest regions. The studied variables included: actions of food and nutrition education and their frequency, social actors involved, form of guidance for achieving food and nutrition education, inclusion of food and nutrition theme in Political Pedagogical Project and the difficulties in achieving food and nutrition education. Statistical analyses were performed using the χ2 Fisher’s test or Pearson’s exact test, beyond the multivariate logistic regression, with a significance level of 5% model. Out of the 388 interviewed nutritionists, 85.1% perform actions of food and nutrition education in schools and day care centers, with the highest frequency in the South region (94.6%) and lowest in the Northeast (79.2%) (p = 0.04). The actions of food and nutrition education are predominantly developed through lectures, with biannual frequency, with the participation of the pedagogical coordinator and teacher in the planning and execution of these practical activities. In less than half of the towns, the food and nutrition issues are worked into the school curriculum, with emphasis on the discipline of Sciences. When nutritionists orient the social actors in schools and day care centers through training activities on healthy eating, reduce the chances by 61% of inclusion of food and nutrition education in the Pedagogical Political Project. It is possible to suggest that these formations present weaknesses and limitations and is not a satisfactory strategy for entering these educational practices at school. The actions of food and nutrition education are focused on a traditional model of education, punctually and with little articulation with the school curriculum. It is hoped that the information presented can support nutritionists, school community and trainers and regulatory agencies of the profession, in the search for new approaches in order to encourage and qualify the actions of food and nutrition education in schools.