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The Nutritional Status and Food Intake of Community Health Agents

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Information provided by:
Unidade Itaquera
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00682604
First received: May 20, 2008
Last updated: NA
Last verified: May 2008
History: No changes posted
  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

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

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Further study details as provided by Unidade Itaquera:

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
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

No publications provided

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

Keywords provided by Unidade Itaquera:
Family Health Program; Food consumption; Nutritional status

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Metabolic Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 19, 2013