Banca de DEFESA: LARISSA SILVA DE ALBUQUERQUE

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LARISSA SILVA DE ALBUQUERQUE
DATE: 29/06/2021
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/xdz-xiep-iai
TITLE:

EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF FOOD AND NUTRITION EDUCATION
ACTIVITIES AS A STIMULUS TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN
FROM SOCIAL VULNERABILITY COMMUNITIES

KEY WORDS:

Early Childhood. Food and Nutrition Education. Child development. Social vulnerability.

PAGES: 95
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Nutrição
SUMMARY:

Early childhood is an important period in the acquisition and recovery of
complex abilities for the development of the child's full potential, due to
the great cerebral plasticity. Thinking about this phase, the present
study tested the hypothesis that teaching mothers Food and Nutrition
Education (FNE) activities based on the methodology of Care for Child
Development (CCD) and responsive feeding, at the moment of feeding
the child, would be a good strategy to stimulate development and would
provide a better result in the Denver II Development Screening test
(TTDDII). From a randomized clinical trial, 85 mother/child binomials
were analyzed, selected after anthropometric assessment of the
nutritional status and anemia test (HemoCue®) of the children, divided
into a control group (CG) and an intervention group (IG). TTDDII was the
methodological checking process chosen to monitor child development
and identify the risk of delays, at the beginning and after 6 months of
interventions. The mothers of both groups received instructions on how

to teach Food and Nutrition Education activities to their children, but only
the intervention group received fortnightly home visits to observe the
moment of interaction. With 3 months remaining to complete the survey,
face-to-face visits were suspended due to the mandatory social
isolation based on a Decree to combat the Covid 19 pandemic. Thus,
the intervention started to be done in a virtually and the final
atropometric evaluation was postponed. The pandemic caused a 45.5%
loss in the number of mother/child binomials in the control group and
46.3% in the intervention group. The most discrepant data was the fact
that smoking and alcoholic mothers (P <0.01) gave up in a significantly
higher proportion than those who remained until the end of the research,
indicating that these habits may impair child care. At the end of the
research, the prevalence of suspects of delay in the control group was
45.8% and 27.3% in the intervention group (P = 0.19), in the logistic
regression that included the initial diagnosis of Denver as a covariable,
the result remained without statistical significance (P = 0.21). The
pandemic in 2020 hampered the development of the research and the
sample loss decreases the chances of having statistical significance.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1120400 - TELMA MARIA DE MENEZES TOLEDO FLORENCIO
Interna - 3357786 - MONICA LOPES DE ASSUNCAO
Externa à Instituição - REVILANE PARENTE DE ALENCAR BRITTO - NENHUMA