The Nutritional Status and Food Intake of Community Health Agents

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Clinical Trial

Official title:

Community Health Agents From East Zone of Sao Paulo City, Brazil: A Look at Their Nutritional Status and Food Intake

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00682604
• Other study ID #: UItaquera
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 20, 2008
• Last updated: May 20, 2008
• Start date: September 2006
• Est. completion date: October 2006

Study information

• Verified date: May 2008
• Source: Unidade Itaquera
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Description:

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 88
• Est. completion date: October 2006
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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.

Study Design

Observational Model: Ecologic or Community, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Metabolic Diseases
• Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Faculdade Santsa Marcelina - Unidade Itaquera	São Paulo	SP

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Unidade Itaquera

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil,