Intervenção educativa em saúde nutricional para educadores infantis da rede pública: um estudo avaliativo

• Autor(a) principal: Lourenção, Luiz Felipe de Paiva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Graciano, Míriam Monteiro de Castro, Santos, Paula Ribeiro, Oliveira, Izabela Regina Cardoso de, Pereira-Dourado, Stela Márcia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFLA
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/49275
• topic: Promoção da saúde; Educação alimentar e nutricional; Educação em saúde; Health promotion; Food and nutrition education; Health education; Promoción de la salud; Educación alimentaria y nutricional; Educación en salud

The objective of the study was to carry out a training and nutritional education program, aimed at child educators from a Municipal Network of Early Childhood Education, regarding dietary practices and school feeding, evaluating their effectiveness and verifying possible associations with the education of these child educators. This is a pre-experimental study, of the pre-test and post-test type, carried out without a control group. The sample consisted of 224 preschool teachers from 15 Municipal Centers for Early Childhood Education, who participated in a Course on Health Promotion and Pedagogical Practice in Early Childhood Education, consisting of two modules. Sociodemographic data, physical activity and anthropometric data were reported using a questionnaire. A Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire was used to measure individuals'knowledge of nutrition and to assess knowledge acquisition, after Nutritional Intervention, a questionnaire on a 7-point Likert scale. The educational intervention data were analyzed using the paired t-test, considering p <0.05. The average score of nutritional knowledge before educational intervention was 8.1 ± 2.0 points, observing a predominance of moderate nutritional knowledge among child educators (68%). Through the paired t-test, a difference (p <0.001) was observed between the average grades after (5.07) and before (3.4) the nutritional intervention program, without, however, having a difference between the school stratification of the students. participants (p-value = 0.26). The proposed food and nutritional intervention program proved to be simpleand effective for improving the knowledge about food and nutrition of early childhood educators.