Avaliação do monitoramento do consumo alimentar na atenção básica de Dourados/MS após capacitação das equipes de saúde

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the operation of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System for food consumption data after training in the basic care network of the city of Dourados - MS. Descriptive, qualitative and quantitative study, carried out from September 2018 to June 2019 in all Basic Health Units and Basic Units of Family Health. The data collection was through field diary and questionnaire with objective and dissertative questions. The quantitative data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, being presented in absolute number and percentage. Qualitative data were grouped by themes and described in the main tables reported. He observed that 55.4% of the team members are not performing food monitoring, 52.4% of the teams were unable to incorporate this assignment into the work routine. It was observed that the main reasons for not doing food monitoring were associated with a lack of periodic training and the main difficulties were related to excessive labor demand coupled with lack of time and structural problems such as lack of quality and insufficient equipment, on the experience of conducting food monitoring the most common reports indicate that teams are in the incorporation phase in the work routine. Considering that food monitoring is a tool for managing health promotion indicators that can be assigned to plan intervention actions aimed at health promotion and disease prevention, there is a clear need for government strategies to increase adherence of the health teams in this assignment.