The Nutritional Status and Food Intake of Community Health Agents

NCT00682604 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: UItaquera
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 88
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This research had as a goal to characterize the social demographic profile, nutritional status, the presence of chronic non-transmissible diseases and food intake of the community health agents who belong to five family health units in the east zone of Sao Paulo City.

Conditions

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Keywords

Family Health Program; Food consumption; Nutritional status

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Community health agents from East Zone of Sao Paulo City, Brazil.

You may qualify if:

• Be an agent comunnity health who belong in the family health unit choosed to participate of this study;
• Assign the autorization to participate of the study;
• Answer a questionary of health, social demographic profile and food intake.

You may not qualify if:

• Refuse to participate or assign the autorization;
• Don´t answer the questionary of health and food intake;
• Don´t participate of the nutricional status evaluation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Unidade Itaquera: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculdade Santsa Marcelina - Unidade Itaquera

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Study Officials

• Alexandra C. Freitas

  Faculdade Santa Marcelina - Unidade Itaquera

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: ECOLOGIC OR COMMUNITY
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 20, 2008
• First Posted: May 22, 2008
• Study Start: September 1, 2006
• Study Completion: October 1, 2006
• Last Updated: May 22, 2008

Record last verified: 2008-05

Locations

BR (1)