Objective: To analyze temporal trend of Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN) coverage and nutritional status of adults followed up in Primary Health Care in Brazil, 2008-2019. Methods: Ecological time series study with data from Brazilian macro-regions. Annual percent change in nutritional status classification and total coverage were estimated by Prais-Winsten regression. Results: 115,034,534 record...
Introduction: The change in life habits, resulting from the development of technologies in transportation, in the media and in food production, contributes to a sedentary lifestyle and inadequate food. Objective: To evaluate food consumption and verify its relationship with the nutritional status of children. Materials and methods: 80 schoolchildren of both sexes, aged between 8 and 11 years, participated. Anth...
The aim was to assess whether the appetite Visual Analogy Scale (VAS) can be useful as a tool for preventing unwanted weight gain or reducing the expected weight loss in patients undergoing gastroplasty. This is a longitudinal study, in which thirty patients submitted to gastroplasty, randomly selected, had their appetite measured in the first and third months after the surgery. The appetite VAS used contained ...
This scope review aims to map food literacy intervention studies, according to the economic classification of the origin country. Using guidelines from The Joanna Briggs Institute (2020), a search in eight databases was performed in addition to gray literature. The study involved adult audiences, publications from various countries and in any language. The selection process and data extraction from the studies ...
Aim: To describe the process of construction and validation of a booklet on teas with medicinal properties, aimed at women survivors of breast cancer, prepared according to the fundamentals of health literacy. Method: Methodological study carried out in three stages: 1) interview with women survivors of breast cancer to identify the teas most used by them; 2) development of the booklet and 3) validation of the ...
Um conjunto de duas dezenas de profissionais portugueses de várias áreas da saúde refletiu em conjunto sobre as questões que levam os jovens a não se interessarem pela vacinação contra o COVID-19 e a forma mais eficaz de se ultrapassarem estas crenças negativas e barreiras à vacinação. As preocupações destes jovens sobre os efeitos seguros da vacinação, a proteção de familiares e amigos e o regresso às atividad...
Objetivo: Identificar os padrões alimentares e os seus fatores associados em uma amostra de mulheres residentes de um munícipio do Nordeste do Brasil. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo transversal que utilizou dados de 648 mulheres acompanhadas por um serviço de saúde vinculado ao Sistema Único de Saúde. Foram coletados dados sociodemográficos, de estilo de vida, de estado nutricional e de consumo alimentar. Os pa...
Objective: to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the health literacy questionnaire European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short-short form (HLS-EU-Q6) in Brazilian adults. Method: the instrument was translated and pre-tested in a sample of 50 individuals. Subsequently, it was applied to a sample of 783 adult individuals. The data went through an appropriate pro...
Objective:Thepurpose of this paper is to describe the conception process of a serious game, Oral Health Kids, developed to educate in child oral hygiene through participation of parents or guardians. Method:The game was developed using the method proposed by Preece, Rogers and Sharp (2013) called User-Centered Participatory Interaction Design, or Participatory Design (PD), with the participation of a multidisci...
Objective:The purpose of this paper is to describe the conception process of a serious game, Oral Health Kids, developed to educate in child oral hygiene through participation of parents or guardians. Method: The game was developed using the method proposed by Preece, Rogers and Sharp (2013) called User-Centered Participatory Interaction Design, or Participatory Design (PD), with the participation of a multidis...