PERCEPÇÃO DO ESTADO NUTRICIONAL | 689Rev. Nutr., Campinas, 24 (5)
R E S U M O ObjetivoAvaliar a prevalência e os fatores associados ao erro na percepção do estado nutricional das crianças de creches públicas e privadas de Balneário Camboriú (SC) por parte das mães ou responsáveis.
MétodosEstudo transversal com a seleção de amostra em duplo estágio (n=589). A coleta de dados incluiu medidas antropométricas e questionário com variáveis infantis e maternas. Foram calculadas as razões de prevalência e intervalos de confiança de 95% (IC 95%), por meio da Regressão de Poisson, ajustada para delineamentos complexos.
Resultados
Foram avaliadas 493 crianças (83,7%
A B S T R A C T
ObjectiveThis study assessed the prevalence and factors associated with mother's or guardian's perception error of the nutritional status of children in public and private kindergartens of Balneário Camboriu, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Methods
This cross-sectional study had a two stage sample (n=589). Data collection included anthropometric measurements and administration of a questionnaire with infant and maternal variables. The prevalence ratios (PR) and confidence intervals 95% (CI 95%) were calculated using the Poisson regression, adjusted for complex sampling.
Results
Four hundred and ninety-three children were evaluated (83.7%). Gender distribution was homogeneous.Most of the questionnaires were answered by the mothers (95.7%) who were mostly Caucasian with average education level. The prevalence of error in the classification of nutritional status was 18.9% . After adjusted analysis, overweight .1) or childhood malnutrition and non-Caucasian caregiver (RP 1.7 IC 95% 1.1-2.6) were associated with greater outcome prevalence, while caregiver aged 24 to 35 years , with higher income ) and obesity had an opposite effect.
ConclusionPrevalence of error was similar to that observed in other studies, and was associated with maternal compositional variables and child's nutritional status.