Avaliação do estado nutricional de escolares da rede estadual de ensino de Cuiabá e Várzea Grande, MT e sua relação com a adesão à alimentação escolar

Abstract

This work is a study of quantitative, descriptive and transversal approach performed in 5 State public schools in the municipalities of Cuiabá and Várzea Grande-MT, with the objective of assessing the relationship between the nutritional status of adolescents with the accession to the school meals. The group studied was composed of 105 students aged between 14 and 16 years, of both sexes attending the ninth grade of elementary school. Was applied questionnaire with questions about personal identification, demographic data and membership of the school meals. Weight measurement was carried out and of the stature of the school, for the assessment of nutritional status. The body mass Index indicators for age (IMC/I) and height for age (E/I) were calculated in Anthroplus program of the World Health Organization and evaluated in percentile. For tabulation and data analysis was used the Epi-Info version 3.5.4. We used the Chi-square test for comparison between the prevalence of the studied variables. The results showed that 11.4% of the adolescents were at risk of low birth weight and 20% Overweight/obesity, and only 10.5% with risk of short stature. No significant differences were found in this group between sexes and ages. We observed a tendency to higher prevalence of low birth weight risk among those who joined the school meals regularly joined the front, being overweight/obesity and the risk of stunting similar between the two groups. These figures reaffirm that the overweight in adolescents is a growing today, and that membership of the school feeding is not influencing the improvement of nutritional status. Interventions should be made, so there is a further reduction of nutritional status in this group and prevent chronic diseases in later life.