Avaliação da variedade da dieta em uma população de idosos e adultos mais velhos

Abstract

Objective: Evaluate the variety of diet and the factors associated with it between adults and the elderly served in the Family Health Strategy in Governador Valadares. Methods: Epidemiological study of transverse and descriptive wedge developed in the municipality of Governor Valadares. 186 adult and elderly subjects were evaluated. Structured questionnaire was used for interview. A 24- hour Recall was applied on typical power days and data was transcribed into Diet Pro ® software. The variety of diet was determined by the sum of 3 indicators: (1) variety of foods consumed; (2) variety of food groups consumed; (3) average variety of foods consumed per group. The evaluated population was divided into tercis according to scores of the Total Variety of the Diet. The association between the tercis and the variables of life, health and nutrition was estimated through Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (95% CI), considering tercil 1 as the reference category and p < 0.05 the significance level. Results: It was observed that the best variety of diet was significantly associated with the female sex (OR: 4,01; 95% CI: 1,72-9,31), the elderly age group (OR: 3,66; 95% CI: 1,63-8,17) and them lower alcohol consumption (OR: 0,21; 95% CI: 0,07- 0,59). Conclusion: This study found a variety score of diet that points to a low dietary monotony; and the greater variety of diet was associated with the female sex and the elderly age and the lower consumption of alcoholic beverages.