The Nutritional Status and Food Intake of Community Health Agents

This study has been completed.

Sponsored by:	Unidade Itaquera
Information provided by:	Unidade Itaquera
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00682604

Purpose

This research had as a goal to characterize the social demographic profile, nutritional status, the presence of chronic non-transmissible diseases and food intake of the community health agents who belong to five family health units in the east zone of Sao Paulo City.

Condition
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

MedlinePlus related topics: Metabolic Disorders

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Observational
Study Design:	Ecologic or Community, Cross-Sectional
Official Title:	Community Health Agents From East Zone of Sao Paulo City, Brazil: A Look at Their Nutritional Status and Food Intake

Further study details as provided by Unidade Itaquera:

Biospecimen Retention: None Retained

Biospecimen Description:

Enrollment:	88
Study Start Date:	September 2006
Study Completion Date:	October 2006

Detailed Description:

It's a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative study developed among 88 individual.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No
Sampling Method:	Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Community health agents from East Zone of Sao Paulo City, Brazil.

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Be an agent comunnity health who belong in the family health unit choosed to participate of this study;
Assign the autorization to participate of the study;
Answer a questionary of health, social demographic profile and food intake.

Exclusion Criteria:

Refuse to participate or assign the autorization;
Don´t answer the questionary of health and food intake;
Don´t participate of the nutricional status evaluation.

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00682604

Locations

Brazil, SP
Faculdade Santsa Marcelina - Unidade Itaquera
São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Sponsors and Collaborators

Unidade Itaquera

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Alexandra C. Freitas

Faculdade Santa Marcelina - Unidade Itaquera

More Information

Responsible Party:	UItaquera ( Alexandra Corrêa de Freitas )
Study ID Numbers:	UItaquera
Study First Received:	May 20, 2008
Last Updated:	May 20, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00682604
Health Authority:	Brazil: Ethics Committee

Keywords provided by Unidade Itaquera:

Family Health Program; Food consumption; Nutritional status

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Metabolic Diseases
Metabolic disorder

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009