Maternal perception of the child’s nutritional status from the perspective of adjusted residual analysis

Authors

  • Gustavo Carreiro Pinasco Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória – EMESCAM – Vitoria ES, Brazil. /Centro Univeristário Saúde ABC – FMABC – Santo André – SP, Brazil
  • Arthur Brunelli Sales Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória – EMESCAM – Vitoria ES, Brazil
  • Carla Venância Aguilar Santos Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória – EMESCAM – Vitoria ES, Brazil
  • Elizandra Cola Hospital Estadual Infantil Nossa Senhora da Glória – HEINSG – Vitória – ES, Brazil
  • Fabiano Novaes Barcellos Filho Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória – EMESCAM – Vitoria ES, Brazil
  • João Batista Francalino da Rocha Centro Univeristário Saúde ABC – FMABC – Santo André – SP, Brazil
  • Eduardo Moreno Júdice de Mattos Farina Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória – EMESCAM – Vitoria ES, Brazil
  • Willer França Fiorotti Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória – EMESCAM – Vitoria ES, Brazil
  • Luiz Carlos de Abreu Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Vitória – EMESCAM – Vitoria ES, Brazil. /Centro Univeristário Saúde ABC – FMABC – Santo André – SP, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.v30.11102

Keywords:

maternal behavior, nutritional status, child, overweight,, obesity

Abstract

Backgroung: The maternal perception of the nutritional status of their children has several important social factors in its composition and it can be important in determine quality of children’s food.


Objective: To assess social factors influencing maternal perception of her children´s nutritional status.


Methods: Cross sectional study with school children from 6 to 10 years from a public school in São Paulo, Brazil. The data was obtained through a structured questionnaire applied to mothers and through children’s body mass index. Associations between variables were analyzed by the Qui-square test and
by the adjusted residues analysis, with 5% of significance. The agreement between maternal perception and nutritional status was assessed through the Kappa test.

 

Results: We found incorrect perception in 45.8% of cases, from which 98.2% were underestimation, with 80% of underestimation for overweight children. We found poor and slight agreement for all cases. Adjusted residuals pointed eutrophic underestimation; better maternal perception for
the obese; better perception for mothers that attained middle and high school levels; underestimation for eutrophic boys and correct perception for eutrophic girls. Single mothers and
those who do not work outside tended to underestimate their eutrophic children.


Conclusion: We found poor agreement for almost all cases, with exception to mothers of girls and those that do not work outside. A correct perception was related positively with lower education levels, being worse for mothers without a partner and for those who do not work outside. Mothers of girls, compared to mothers of boys, had a more accurate perception.

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2020-10-15

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Vol. 30 No. 3 (2020)

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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