Associações entre consumo alimentar e condição sócio-econômica de escolares residentes na cidade de Santa Cruz/RN

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Priscilla Rafaella da
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/40024
• topic: Escolares; Programa de Transferência de Renda; Estado Nutricional; Consumo alimentar

The emergence of income transfer programs stand out as anti-poverty policies in several countries. The aim of the study was to analyze the association between nutritional status and food intake with the socio-economic condition and receiving the "Bolsa Familia" (PBF) in schoolchildren from the city of Santa Cruz, RN. This is a cross-sectional study of 312 schoolchildren of the municipal network. Data were collected through a questionnaire with socio-demographic and economic data of the family, child health and food intake evaluation. For the anthropometric measurements were measured weight and height, subsequently classified according to the cutoff points of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 2.0 software, considering statistically significant values of p <0.05. The mean age was 8.9 ± 1.9 years for boys and 8.8 ± 1.9 for girls. Overweight was present in 14.4% of the sample and obesity in 12.2%. The beans is most consumed by GMP recipients (p = 0.02), while most of these have a lower milk consumption (p = 0.01). Raw salad is less consumed by those who have a lower income than 1 minimum wage (p = 0.00), the same is repeated for milk (p = 0.00). There was a high prevalence of overweight and obesity among schoolchildren, as well as inadequate food intake between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the program. In general, the receipt of social benefit was not associated with improvement in food consumption.