RESUMO
UNLABELLED: The nutritional status in older aged persons is the resulting of their living conditions and health. The demographic growing of this part of population is a challenge to health professionals, to know which are the characteristics of the normality in this stage of life. OBJECTIVE: To know the nutritional status of the older aged persons beneficiaries of the ASOMA programme and identify from a qualitative focus, their food consumption standards. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Descriptive, co-relational and transversal field study. Universe: 10214 persons from three different food assistance programmes. Sampling method: aleatory stratified respecting the universe proportion resulting n = 162 from ASOMA programme. Equation: Chumlea's was used to check height-taking reference from knee height and BMI. TECHNIQUES: Observation and measurement (anthropometric) CONCLUSIONS: The group has been represented into 2/3 parts of women n:108 and the age category older-young persons, low education level, temporary incomes always under $200 monthly. One quarter of them still work. The food consumption standard is signed by three basic foods: bread, oil and sugar and a frequent consumption of rice and chicken. Cow-meat, three-kind vegetables, pasta and "A" fruits appear as less frequents. The 83.9% of older-persons have a monotonous diet (weekly consumption < or = 5 different foods) that belong to the ASOMA programme. The middle value for BMI was 27.4 for the entire group, SD 5.33. The 24.1% of de population were situated in BMI values status that indicate normal nutritional. Analyzing the values by sex, men values were all around the middle value of the group. Among the women the values showed more dispersion. The BMI for women (middle value 28.4 with SD 5.88) was higher than for men (middle value 25.9 with SD 3.60). It was found positive co relation between BMI and body fat percentage and negative for BMI and body water percentage. Therefore was founded a negative significant co relation between the body fat and body water percentages.
Assuntos
Dieta , Planejamento em Saúde/métodos , Política Nutricional , Estado Nutricional , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Argentina , Composição Corporal , Índice de Massa Corporal , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fatores SocioeconômicosRESUMO
The nutritional status in older aged persons is the resulting of their living conditions and health. The demographic growing of this part of population is a challenge to health professionals, to know which are the characteristics of the normality in this stage of life. OBJECTIVE: To know the nutritional status of the older aged persons beneficiaries of the ASOMA programme and identify from a qualitative focus, their food consumption standards. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Descriptive, co-relational and transversal field study. Universe: 10214 persons from three different food assistance programmes. Sampling method: aleatory stratified respecting the universe proportion resulting n = 162 from ASOMA programme. Equation: Chumleas was used to check height-taking reference from knee height and BMI. Techniques: Observation and measurement (anthropometric) CONCLUSIONS: The group has been represented into 2/3 parts of women n:108 and the age category older-young persons, low education level, temporary incomes always under $200 monthly. One quarter of them still work. The food consumption standard is signed by three basic foods: bread, oil and sugar and a frequent consumption of rice and chicken. Cow-meat, three-kind vegetables, pasta and [quot ]A[quot ] fruits appear as less frequents. The 83.9
of older-persons have a monotonous diet (weekly consumption < or = 5 different foods) that belong to the ASOMA programme. The middle value for BMI was 27.4 for the entire group, SD 5.33. The 24.1
of de population were situated in BMI values status that indicate normal nutritional. Analyzing the values by sex, men values were all around the middle value of the group. Among the women the values showed more dispersion. The BMI for women (middle value 28.4 with SD 5.88) was higher than for men (middle value 25.9 with SD 3.60). It was found positive co relation between BMI and body fat percentage and negative for BMI and body water percentage. Therefore was founded a negative significant co relation between the body fat and body water percentages.