ABSTRACT
The present study corresponds to a quali-quantitative research, which inquired into user's perception of the Recovery Program of the Child in Nutritional Risk Nutrir Más, in Santa Fe city urban area in the last trimester of 2007. Specifically, it aimed at identifying the perceptions related to the program's components: training workshops, health controls and alimentary assistance through tickets; program's positive and negative aspects; usefulness of knowledge gained in the upbringing daily tasks; and the relationship between beneficiaries and program's leaders in the workplace and the health staff. About 50 percent of the beneficiaries who had been in the program for more than a year, participated in a survey through a semi-structured interview. In general, the users reported a high level of satisfaction towards the activities proposed by the program and highlighted its importance for educational actions, the improvement of their knowledge and alimentary practices towards their underweight children, the diversification of daily feeding and the reinforcement of the emotional bond between mother and child. This research recognizes the importance of perception studies because they allow to improve the program's management and to be aware of the user's satisfaction, as well.
El presente estudio corresponde a una investigación cuali-cuantitativa que indagó la percepción de los usuarios del Programa de Recuperación del Niño en Riesgo Nutricional "NUTRIR MAS" del área urbana de la ciudad de Santa Fe en el último trimestre del 2007. Se buscó identificar las percepciones vinculadas a los componentes del programa: actividades educativas, controles de salud y prestación alimentaria a través de tickets; con el propósito de identificar aspectos positivos y negativos del mismo, la utilidad de los conocimientos impartidos y la relación entre los usuarios y los referentes del programa en terreno y el equipo de salud. Se realizó una encuesta semiestructurada al 50 por ciento de los usuarios de la ciudad de Santa Fe que tenían una permanencia en el programa mayor a un año. El 99 por ciento de los encuestados reportó un alto nivel de satisfacción hacia las actividades propuestas por el programa y destacaron su valor por las acciones educativas, el mejoramiento de sus conocimientos y prácticas alimentarias, la diversificación de la alimentación cotidiana y el fortalecimiento del vínculo madre-hijo. Esta investigación reconoce la importancia de los estudios de percepción porque permite mejorar la gestión del programa adaptando las estrategias de intervención a la población destinataria.
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Child , Child Nutrition , Nutrition Programs , Nutrition for Vulnerable Groups , Perception , Parents/psychology , Argentina , Cross-Sectional Studies , Food and Nutrition Education , Food Preferences , Nutrition Surveys , Risk , Risk Groups , Consumer Behavior , Urban AreaABSTRACT
Este trabalho teve como objetivo recuperar o processo de gênese e constituição da Educação Alimentar, através da análise da literatura especializada sobre alimentação, referente aos anos de 1934 a 1946. O período de 1934 a 1939 caracterizou-se pela configuração das bases científicas da alimentação racional, enquanto o período de 1940 a 1946 foi caracterizado pela síntese e definição dos marcos conceituais e disciplinares da ciência da nutrição, resultando em duas formas disciplinares para a Educação Alimentar: Higiene e Educação Alimentar, que sinalizou maior preocupação com o conteúdo, e Educação Alimentar, centrada nos instrumentos pedagógicos.
This work aims at retrieving the process of genesis and constitution of Alimentary Education, throughout the analysis of specialized literature, published from 1934 to 1946. The period from 1934 to 1939 has been characterized by the configuration of scientific bases of rational nourishment, while the period from 1940 to 1946 has been characterized by synthesis and definition of conceptual and disciplinary marks of the nutrition science,resulting in two disciplinary forms for the Alimentary Education: Hygiene and Alimentary Education, which has pointed out an important preocupation with content, and Alimentary Education, centred on pedagogical instruments.
Le but de cet'article est récuperer le procés de genése et constitution de l'Education Alimentaire, en analisant la literature specialisée en alimentation, produite entre 1934 et 1946. Le période 1934-1939 a été characterisé par la configuration des bases scientifiques de l' alimentation rationnelle, tandis que le période 1940-1946 a été characterisé par la synthése et definition des limites conceptuels et disciplinaires de la science de la nutrition, dont l' effet a eu deux formes disciplinaires pour l'Education Alimentaire: Hygiéne et Éducation Alimentair, préocupées avec le contenu, et Éducation Alimentaire, basée sur les instruments pédagogiques.