A importância da avaliação nutricional como estratégia de promoção de saúde em adolescentes na escola

Abstract

The importance of nutritional assessment as a strategy for health promotion in school adolescents. Introduction: Health care has been investing in the formulation, implementation and implementation of health promotion policies, giving attention to the actions and changes that prioritize the quality of life of the people. The school has been seen as one of the major contributors to the quality of life and their relationships with health and nutritional habits. Thus nutritional assessment is a method that facilitates research contributing to an early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Objective: This study aims to identify, through questionnaires, the importance of nutritional evaluation, related to health promotion in school. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional quantitative and descriptive study, developed through direct method questionnaires, interviews. A total of 116 male and female students from the first year of high school were evaluated in a state school in the city of Fortaleza / CE with a total population of 140 students from the 1st year of the afternoon shift. Results: In table 1, the quality of life (29.3%) together with physical and mental well-being (26%) and absence of diseases (17.1%) were considerably higher adolescents. Discussion: Global studies indicate that between 1980 and 2013 the prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents in several countries has only increased from 8.1 to 12.9% and from 8.4% to 13.4% in both the sexes. Conclusion: According to the results obtained with these students, it was verified the increase in the perception that sedentary habits reduce the quality of life, and that the importance of the early nutritional evaluation assists in more reliable results.