CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NUTRITIONAL PROFILE OF THE REGISTRY OF OVERWEIGHT INDIVIDUALS IN THE CITY OF BETIM - MG IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Food and nutrition surveillance is important in the context of health promotion in different spheres of government, with the aim of supporting the development of a country. From it, it is possible to collect, monitor and evaluate information, as a way to collect more reliable parameters to support the taking and functions in Food and Nutrition. However, throughout 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic period, in view of the new recommendations that understand the difficulties of the scenario in question, actions in nutritional surveillance are hampered. To characterize the anthropometric records in SISVAN (Food and Nutritional Surveillance System), as well as nutritional diagnoses in a medium-sized municipality in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte in 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2020 (Covid-19 pandemic period). Reports available on the SISVAN website were issued for the municipality of Betim. Data were compared by nutritional diagnosis, age group, using as reference the means between the years 2019 and 2020. As they are secondary data, submission to the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) was not necessary. The distancing measures adopted to control the pandemic in 2020 impacted the access of users to the surveillance health service and, consequently, the recording of anthropometric data on nutritional status (body weight and measurements). Thus, a reduction in the monitoring record of overweight children, adolescentes, adults and pregnant (p for child record=0.00; p for adolescent record= 0.00; p for adult record =0.00; (p for pregnant record=0,00), except for elderly (p for elderly record=0.20) that there was a reduction in the weight index during the Covid-19 pandemic period. Thus, it is noted that the impact of users on the health service is linked to the pandemic period, in this context, it is understood thvat the implementation of more specific actions is necessary in the above scenario, given its importance in monitoring and recording users.