Abstract

MEDEIROS, Adriana Jesus de; LIMA, Jackson Silva; CARDOSO, Vanille Valério Barbosa Pessoa  and  PALMEIRA, Poliana de Araújo. Longitudinal monitoring of nutritional status of schoolchildren at a public school. J. Hum. Growth Dev. [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.2, pp. 209-215. ISSN 0104-1282.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.v30.10367.

INTRODUCTION: The nutritional transition in Brazil is reaching the child population. In this context, studies have shown high prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren. : To analyze the nutritional and anthropometric status of children in a public school between the years 2013 and 2015METHODS: This is a longitudinal research using a study from 2013 as a baseline. The sample consisted of 73 students aged between 3 and 9 years old. Socioeconomic, anthropometric and school feeding information were collected using questionnaires according to the age of the student. The nutritional status was determined by collecting weight and height measurements, which were later used to express Weight/Age and Height/Age scores. Statistical analysis was done with the SPSS programRESULTS: The results showed that a significant portion of the students remained overweight and obese according Weight/Age index (21.8%) and at risk of low weight by the Height/Age and Weight/Age indexes (4.1% and 3.6%). These students had growth and weight gain within the normal range and most of them with an appropriate weight for their age, however there was a significant portion of students underweight and overweight/obeseCONCLUSION: The early identification of factors, which affect the growth and weight gain in childhood, may contribute to design strategies between the health team and the school crew to promote healthy eating habits among this audience

Keywords : children; school feeding; overweight; malnutrition; nutrition surveillance.

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