Análise dos indicadores da estratégia nacional para prevenção e atenção à obesidade infantil - PROTEJA nos municípios de Cuité, Damião e Frei Martinho, Paraíba.

Abstract

Childhood obesity is growing every day, having reached epidemic levels in various parts of the world. Observing a constant increase in cases of childhood obesity in Brazil, the General Coordination of Food and Nutrition of the Department of Health Promotion of the Secretariat of Primary Health Care of the Ministry of Health (CGAN/DEPROS/SAPS/MS) created a initiative entitled “Strategy for Prevention and Attention to Childhood Obesity (PROTEJA)”, which aims to stop the advance of childhood obesity. The strategy will evaluate the member municipalities according to the progress of each one in the following indicators: Number of children with assessed nutritional status, number of children with assessed eating practices and number of individual consultations for the assessed problem or condition obesity in children. Objective: Evaluate evaluation indicators of the Prevention and Attention to Childhood Obesity Strategy (PROTEJA) in the municipalities of Cuité, Damião and Frei Martinho, in Paraíba. Method: This is a documentary research with a quantitative approach and cross-sectional approach, carried out through collection in public databases, where three indicators of the participating municipalities were evaluated, namely: Number of children with nutritional status (weight and height) evaluated, number of children with dietary practices (food consumption markers) evaluated and number of individual consultations for problem or condition evaluated obesity in children. Results: It was found that the three municipalities comprise a small population (< 30,000 inhabitants), with low demographic density. All indicators increased their percentages between the years (2020 - 2022), with the exception of anthropometric assessment data in Frei Martinho, which decreased, as well as consumption markers in Damião, and individual consultations in Damião and Frei Martinho, which remained unchanged. if no change. Cuité raises the number of records in all indicators. Eutrophy was greater than 51% in all municipalities regardless of the year, however, comparing the years in the municipality, there was an increase in the percentages between years in all municipalities, with the exception of Frei Martinho, which decreased the frequency. When comparing the years and observing overweight, obesity and severe obesity, all percentages increase, with the exception of Damião, which decreases the percentages of these nutritional states. Conclusion: It is evident that the analysis of the indicators, as well as the assessment of the nutritional status obtained through PROTEJA, can generate information for the adoption of actions aimed at preventing childhood obesity, according to the specificity and conditions of each municipality.