Monitoring children’s health in a public daycare center: focus on their nutritional profile

Authors

  • Nathanielly Cristina Carvalho de Brito Santos
  • Maria Benegelania Pinto
  • Amanda Haissa Barros Henriques
  • Joseane da Rocha Dantas Cavalcanti
  • Cristhianne Carvalho de Brito
  • Altamira Pereira da Silva Reichert

Keywords:

Child Health, Child Day Care Centers, Nutritional Status

Abstract

One aimed to identify the nutritional profile of children in a public daycare center in the city of Cuité-Paraíba, from the perspective of health surveillance. This is a cross-sectional, exploratory-descriptive, field study with a quantitative approach, performed in 2011, with 55 children from 6 to 60 months of life, assisted full time in a public daycare center, who met the selection criteria: be attending the daycare center; and not present any disability. One used for evaluation the anthropometric measurements of weight, height and Body Mass Index, according to the growth curve suggested by the Ministry of Health. One identified that 96.4% had adequate nutritional status, however, 7.3% had overweight risk and 3.6% underweight risk, especially girls. It is important to raise managers’, professionals’ and parents’ awareness about the health surveillance of children in daycare centers for identification and intervention against nutritional changes, encouraging an adequate child growth.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.2013000400006

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Published

2013-08-07

How to Cite

Santos, N. C. C. de B., Pinto, M. B., Henriques, A. H. B., Cavalcanti, J. da R. D., Brito, C. C. de, & Reichert, A. P. da S. (2013). Monitoring children’s health in a public daycare center: focus on their nutritional profile. Rev Rene, 14(4). Retrieved from http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/3528

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