Nutritional status of children admitted to a shelter
Objective: To assess the nutritional status of children in a shelter located in the city of Recife, Northeastern Brazil. Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study carried out with a sample of 166 children under five years of age admitted to a shelter in Recife, Pernambuco, between September 2007...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Fortaleza (Unifor) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.ojs.unifor.br:article/4062 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.unifor.br/RBPS/article/view/4062 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Child Shelter Nutrition Assessment. Niño Refugio Evaluación Nutricional. Criança Abrigo Avaliação Nutricional. |
| Sumario: | Objective: To assess the nutritional status of children in a shelter located in the city of Recife, Northeastern Brazil. Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study carried out with a sample of 166 children under five years of age admitted to a shelter in Recife, Pernambuco, between September 2007 and September 2012. The study variables were: gender, weight, height, age and reason for institutionalization. Nutritional status was determined based on the following anthropometric indicators: weight-for-age, height-for-age, weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age using the Z score and the World Health Organization growth curves standards. SPSS 13.0 was used for the statistical analysis. For all analyses, statistical significance was set at p |
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