Overweight in Goiás'quilombola students and food insecurity in their families

Cordeiro, Mariana de Morais; Monego, Estelamaris Tronco; Martins, Karine Anusca

doi:10.1590/1415-52732014000400002

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Original Articles • Rev. Nutr. 27 (4) • Jul-Aug 2014 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1415-52732014000400002 copy

Overweight in Goiás'quilombola students and food insecurity in their families¹ 1 Article based on the master's thesis of "Excesso de peso em estudantes quilombolas e a insegurança alimentar em seus domicílios". Universidade Federal de Goiás; 2013.

Excesso de peso de estudantes quilombolas de Goiás e a insegurança alimentar em suas famílias

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Objective:

To characterize the nutritional status of quilombola students and determine the food security status of their households.

Methods:

This is a cross-sectional study with students aged six to nineteen years from quilombola communities in twelve municipalities of Goiás categorized by age, gender, school location (urban/rural), and nutritional status based on the World Health Organization's height-for-age and body mass index for-age charts. The Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale was used for measuring food (in)security in their families. Descriptive and association analyses were conducted using the Chi-square test at a significance level of 5% (p<0.05).

Results:

In a sample of 226 students, overweight (17.2%) was more common than malnutrition (1.3%), especially in students attending urban schools (28.2%) (p<0.05). Most (75.2%) quilombola families experienced food insecurity, especially mild.

Conclusion:

The apparent contradiction of excess weight and food insecurity occurring simultaneously indicates the need of revising the study instruments and the causal network that identify poverty.

African continental ascestry; Food security; Nutritional status; School feeding

Characteristics	Age group
	6 to 9 years		10 to 19 years
	n	%	n	%
Gender
Female Male	55 49	47.0 45.4	62 60	53.0 55.0
Height-for-age
Low height-for-age Appropriate height-for-age	0 104	00.0 46.6	3 119	100.0 53.4
BMI-for-age
Underweight Normal weight Overweight	2 84 18	66.7 45.7 46.2	1 100 21	33.3 54.3 53.8
Location
Rural Urban	56 48	51.9 40.7	52 70	48.1 59.3

Characteristics	n	%	95%CI
Food (in)security
Food security Mild food insecurity Moderate food insecurity Severe food insecurity	54 96 46 18	24.8 45.1 21.6 8.5	19.0 - 30.6 38.4 - 51.8 16.1 - 27.1 04.8 - 12.2

Characteristics	Food (in)security				p¹
	Food security		Food insecurity
	n	%	n	%
Gender
Female Male	30 26	25.6 23.9	87 83	74.4 76.1	0.497
Age
6 to 9 years 10 to 19 years	28 28	26.9 23.0	76 94	73.1 77.0	0.242
School location
Rural Urban	23 33	21.3 28.0	85 85	78.7 72.0	0.069

Characteristics	Food (in)security				p¹
	Not overweight		Overweight
	n	%	n	%
Gender
Female Male	94 93	80.4 85.3	23 16	19.7 14.7	0.294
Age
6 to 9 years 10 to 19 years	86 101	82.7 82.8	18 21	17.3 17.2	0.888
School location
Rural Urban	103 84	95.4 71.8	5 33	04.6 28.2	0.000
Food (in)security
Food security Food insecurity	45 142	80.4 83.6	11 28	19.6 16.5	0.690

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Overweight in Goiás'quilombola students and food insecurity in their families1 1 Article based on the master's thesis of "Excesso de peso em estudantes quilombolas e a insegurança alimentar em seus domicílios". Universidade Federal de Goiás; 2013.

Excesso de peso de estudantes quilombolas de Goiás e a insegurança alimentar em suas famílias

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Methods:

Results:

Conclusion:

Overweight in Goiás'quilombola students and food insecurity in their families¹ 1 Article based on the master's thesis of "Excesso de peso em estudantes quilombolas e a insegurança alimentar em seus domicílios". Universidade Federal de Goiás; 2013.