SILVA, Mateus Fernandes da.
Resumen:
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.