Exercício profissional do nutricionista e a realização da educação alimentar e nutricional nas regiões brasileiras

• Autor(a) principal: Gregório, Nicolly Patrícia
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000df87
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3948
• topic: Alimentação escolar; Educação alimentar e nutricional; Nutricionista; School feeding; Food and nutrition education; Nutritionist; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::NUTRICAO

This study aimed to characterize the exercise of professional nutritionist in the National School Feeding Program and its association with food and nutrition education. Is an analytic cross-sectional descriptive study realized in 432 municipalities in the North, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast and South regions, by telephone interview, from April 2012 to November 2013. Interviews were conducted with the nutritionist responsible for school feeding in the municipalities, in the absence, was replaced by the coordinator of school feeding or municipal secretary of education. For writing this dissertation became a division of the study and considered only the interviews with the nutritionist. Descriptive analyzes were performed, to verify the association between the dependent variable and the explanatory variables the values of the correlation coefficient Cramer's V were estimated. To verify the hypothesis, the Pearson’s chi-square test or Fisher's Exact was conducted. We considered statistical significance level of 5%. Of the 384 study participants nutritionists, the principal information in relation to this observed in professional school feeding were: 84,9% had food and nutrition education, 50,2% had worked for more than two years, 56% were gazetted and 59,6 % worked with higher workload to 30 hours/week. The dedication in other sectors of the municipality besides school feeding was reported by 23,7% of interviewees being most prevalent (89%), the health sector. The presence of other nutritionists in school feeding, besides the technical manager, was found in only 20% of municipalities. These were found in 54% of the municipalities the presence of more than two professionals in the technical framework. Among them was founded the presence of more than two professionals in the technical framework in 54%. Analyses indicated relatively strong association, statistically significant, between the realization of food and nutrition education to employment in the North region (Cramér V = 0.42, p = 0.02). We conclude that most nutritionists school feeding worked for more than two years in school feeding with higher workload to 30 hour week and are public employees. These elements tend to contribute positively to the realization of food and nutrition education in school feeding.