Overweight in Goiás'quilombola students and food insecurity in their families

Revista de Nutrição

Mariana De Morais Cordeiro¹  Estelamaris Tronco Monego¹  Karine Anusca Martins¹ 

关键词: African continental ascestry;    Food security;    Nutritional status;    School feeding;    Grupo com ancestrais do continente africano;    Segurança alimentar e nutricional;    Estado nutricional;    Alimentação escolar;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1415-52732014000400002

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Objective: To characterize the nutritional status of quilombola students and determine the food security status of their households.Methods:This is a cross-sectional study with students aged six to nineteen years from quilombola communities in twelve municipalities of Goiás categorized by age, gender, school location (urban/rural), and nutritional status based on the World Health Organization's height-for-age and body mass index for-age charts. The Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale was used for measuring food (in)security in their families. Descriptive and association analyses were conducted using the Chi-square test at a significance level of 5% (p<0.05).Results: In a sample of 226 students, overweight (17.2%) was more common than malnutrition (1.3%), especially in students attending urban schools (28.2%) (p<0.05). Most (75.2%) quilombola families experienced food insecurity, especially mild.Conclusion: The apparent contradiction of excess weight and food insecurity occurring simultaneously indicates the need of revising the study instruments and the causal network that identify poverty.

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