Aspectos nutricionais ligados à hipertensão: estudo exploratório, desenvolvido no ensino fundamental da rede pública de Botucatu

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Maria José Queiroz de Freitas [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Freitas, Bruna Baptista de, Tablas, Mariana Baptista [UNESP], França, Sarah Candico [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://ojs.unesp.br/index.php/revista_proex/article/view/865; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140825
• topic: Hypertension; Nutritional aspects; Elementary education; Hipertensión; Aspectos nutricionales; Escuela primaria; Hipertensão; Aspectos nutricionais; Ensino fundamental

Hypertension is a chronic disease with high incidence and elevated mortality rates in the modern world. Hypertension cannot be cured, but its control is based on both drug-based and non-drug approaches. The latter involves a healthy diet and lifestyle changes. The objective was to investigate the knowledge of 189 elementary school students (6th to 8th series) concerning the concepts of hypertension and healthy eating. Data were obtained by means of a questionnaire with nine questions on these topics, which was applied in the João de Queiroz state school in Rubião Junior, District of Botucatu. In addition, a tasting (triangular test) of mashed potato was made with 3 samples, as follows: (A) no salt, (B) normal salt, and (C) too much salt. Data analysis revealed that the students demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the disease, and most (70%) of the subjects showed a greater preference for food with higher salt. The results led to the production of an educational booklet relating hypertension to nutrition, in an attempt to disseminate information about the disease and encourage the adoption of healthy habits in the target community of this study.