(IN)SATISFAÇÃO DE IMAGEM CORPORAL: UMA ABORDAGEM COM ACADÊMICOS DO CURSO DE NUTRIÇÃO DE UMA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CENTRO-OESTE BRASILEIRO

• Autor(a) principal: HUGO TORREZAN DE SOUZA
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMS
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufms.br/handle/123456789/8894
• topic: Insatisfação corporal; Imagem corporal; Estudantes; Alimentos; Dieta e Nutrição.; Ciências da Saúde

The present study aims to analyze the presence of body dissatisfaction among nutrition students at a public university in Campo Grande (MS), as well as understand their relationships with their bodies throughout their university education. From a Qualitative Research perspective, open interviews were carried out with 10 young adult academics from the Nutrition course. The interviews were based on a semi-structured script, focused on the conceptions regarding body image, the presence of their possible body dissatisfactions, in addition to the attempt to understand the physical practices, concerns and desires of the course students regarding the existence or not of a model body to be followed within their professions. In general, the reports from nutrition students indicate the recognition of the existence of a body image standard, socially constructed and disseminated, which presents body models, especially thin and hypertrophied, as a standard of body stereotype, which should be taken as a model of body by everyone, especially by professionals in the field of Nutrition. It was also possible to observe that dissatisfaction with the body, perceived by nutrition students, begins well before entering university, especially during adolescence, when shame and fear of exposing their bodies also contributed to symptoms of eating and body image disorders. In this sense, the family and school are pointed out by the interviewees as important spaces where discourses and violence circulate to shape their bodies. It is also noted that there is significant internal pressure among Nutrition course students to adapt their bodies, driven by stereotypes that require, from these professionals, a body that attests to their competence and technical quality. During different stages of training, especially in Nutritional Assessment classes, students felt insecure about exposing their bodies, fearing that they would be recognized as less capable, due to their body composition. The results point to the need to create and promote interdisciplinary and interprofessional academic activities aimed at listening to students on courses in the health areas, in order to mitigate the appearance of body dissatisfaction.