Abstract
We aimed to verify the knowledge, attitude and practice on the use of regional food of families of preschool children at a rural area. Descriptive-exploratory study with quantitative approach, conducted with 200 families of preschool children, residing in two rural districts of Maranguape-CE, Brazil. We applied a Knowledge, Attitude and Practice survey, focusing on the use of regional food. The districts presented similarities with regard to gender (p=1.000), marital status (p=0.603), education (p=0.349), number of preschool children (p=0.104), and workplace (p=0.632), but had different results regarding family income (p=0.033). As for the regional foods, there was no statistically significant association in knowledge (p=0.731), attitude (p=0.362), and practice (p=0.600) in the study locations, prevailing the inadequate level in the three axes. We verified that the people responsible for preschool children in the two locations were unaware of the regional foods terminology and presented inappropriate knowledge, attitude and practice regarding their use.
Highlights
IntroductionNutrition and food are basic requirements for the health promotion and protection, providing adequate growth and development for people, so they can have quality of life[1]
Nutrition and food are basic requirements for the health promotion and protection, providing adequate growth and development for people, so they can have quality of life[1].Brazil currently lives simultaneously with malnutrition and with alarming prevalence of overweight and obesity, a contrasting reality that characterizes a situation of nutritional transition[2]
There is a Family Health Program (FHP) for each district, covering around 1,400 families each. We chose these districts in the rural area due to their location, for they were the nearest districts in the rural area of Maranguape, with an increased production and cultivation of regional foods, characterizing easy access and low cost inherent in this type of food and the support given by nurses and Community Health Agents (CHA) arising from previous research
Summary
Nutrition and food are basic requirements for the health promotion and protection, providing adequate growth and development for people, so they can have quality of life[1]. Brazil currently lives simultaneously with malnutrition and with alarming prevalence of overweight and obesity, a contrasting reality that characterizes a situation of nutritional transition[2]. Corroborating this fact, in 2006, the National Demographic Health Survey of Women and Children found that, in all Brazilian regions, the prevalence of malnutrition in children under five years was about 7%, and in the Northeast region this percentage was 5.7%. We verify a strong growth, in which the quality of food is determinant for the organic maturation and for the physical and psychosocial health[4]
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