IMPACT OF INTERVENTIONS ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS OF THE ELDERLY
FOOD AND NUTRITION EDUCATION; FAMILY HEALTH STRATEGY; SENIORS; QUALITY OF LIFE; CHEERS
The present study sought to correlate nutritional interventions with the quality of life and nutritional parameters of the elderly of Primary Health Care. This is an intervention study with a quantitative approach. Eleven Brazilian elderly enrolled in the Family Health Strategy (ESF) in Natal / RN and Santa Cruz / RN participated. There were 4 nutritional interventions: Simulated market, Healthy choices, Food bingo and Recipes with full use of food. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee, and was used for the collection of data from the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), sociodemographic, SF-36 short-form, Mini Nutritional Assessment (MAN), and Body Mass Index (BMI) at the first moment (before the interventions) and at the second moment (after the interventions). For the statistical analysis of the data, we used descriptive statistics and Wilcoxon and Speraman tests. It was obtained that those present in the interventions presented higher values of the median in the second moment, as well as association and positive correlations were found for aspects of mental health, social function and general state of health, however the aspect of pain in the body, physical dimension and BMI were negative. It is perceived that food and nutrition education has had positive effects on the quality of life and, consequently, on the health of individuals in the community