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DedicatóriaEste trabalho é dedicado à comunidade do Jardim Jaqueline.Em especial, é dedicado às mães participantes da coleta de dados, cujas entrevistas, muitas vezes permeadas de sofrimento e emoções, forneceram subsídios para a obtenção dos resultados desta pesquisa.
AgradecimentosDizem que o Mestrado é uma trajetória muito solitária. Durante estes meses, mesmo sabendo que o maior esforço concentrava-se em minhas mãos, se não contasse com a existência de algumas pessoas, certamente não teria chegado até aqui. Introduction -Inspite of the great prevalence of obesity, poor areas of developing countries are still dealing with child malnutrition, an extremely concerning issue. It's evident that this problem is not only related to the inappropriate and inadequate food access, but also that environmental factors can play a role in child development. Objective: Analyze the levels of food insecurity and types of mother-child bonding as determinants of malnutrition among 4 to 6 year-old-children attending public schools in an area of high social vulnerability in São Paulo. Methods: It's a case-control study, carried out in the two public elementary schools in Jardim Jaqueline, an area of high social vulnerability located in São Paulo. The interview performed with the children's mothers included biological, social, economical and cultural data, familiar food insecurity and mother-child bonding. In order to check the effects of each independent variable and control the effects of the other variables from the model, the statistical analysis were performed by using the hierarchical logistic regression model. Results: It was noticed that inadequate mother-child bonding and familiar food insecurity were associated with child malnutrition (p<0,05), even after controlling for variables such as the partner's monthly income, number of rooms at home, exclusion of the mother as the chief of the family, number of children and paid maternal work.There was no statistically significant difference in the effect of the variables of interesting over malnutrition when considering birth weight child and breast feeding patterns. Conclusions: Inadequate mother-child bonding and familiar food insecurity seemed to be determinants of the occurrence of malnutrition in this population.