INSEGURANÇA ALIMENTAR E NUTRICIONAL DE FAMÍLIAS COM CRIANÇAS MENORES DE CINCO ANOS: FATORES ASSOCIADOS

Abstract

Food and nutrition security means ensuring and providing sufficient access to quality staple food to all. Objective: thus, this study aims to evaluate the food security of families with children from 0 to 5 years old using the Brazilian Insecurity Scale (EBIA) method, being the sensitive indicator to detect families at risk of food insecurity (AI). Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach with a descriptive/ exploratory design. Results: of the 68 children evaluated, 56(82.35%) belonged to the age group from 0 to 3 years old incomplete and 12 (17.65%) comprised the age between 3 to 5 years, with na average age of 01 the 04 years. It was observed, in the distribution by sex, an equality between the participants having for the female sex 34 (50%) and the male 34 (50%), it is observed that the households with Family income were predominant (93.1%) less than two minimum wages and 58.1% of families consisted of up to four residents. Conclusion: the results of this study indicate that there is little family in a state of food insecurity, being mainly associated with the low socioeconomic level of the families.