Facebook as Nutritional Intervention Tool for Overweight Adolescents

Authors

  • Márlon Martins Moreira Programa de Pós-graduação em Atenção à Saúde da Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), Uberaba, MG, Brasil
  • Virgínia Souza Santos Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba
  • Vitor Hugo da Costa Gomes Moreira Teixeira Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto (FCNAUP), Porto, Portugal
  • Martha Elisa Ferreira de Almeida Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5906-2244

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/sdh.v7i2.5474

Keywords:

Internet, Food Restructuring, Anthropometry

Abstract

Introduction: The internet has been used as a tool to promote nutritional education among different publics.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of nutritional education on the anthropometric profile of adolescents with excess body weight, in person and/or online monitoring through a social network.

Methods: Participants were evaluated for anthropometry (weight, height, Body Mass Index and waist and neck circumferences) and nutritional knowledge. The monitoring in person and/or online (by internet) took place during 4 months with the passing on of guidelines on healthy eating habits. The Wilcoxon Test was used to compare the effect of monitoring on nutritional status and nutritional knowledge, the significance of 5%.

Results: At the end of the study, the online monitored group (OMG) presented more eutrophic individuals with adequate neck and waist circumference, reduced body weight and had higher mean scores in the applied questionnaires, and more individuals classified as excellent according to their knowledge.

Conclusion: The online monitoring was efficient not only as a means of obtaining nutritional information, but as a method to follow the reduction of body weight and the perimeters evaluated, especially for individuals who presented obesity.

Author Biographies

Márlon Martins Moreira, Programa de Pós-graduação em Atenção à Saúde da Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), Uberaba, MG, Brasil

Nutricionista.

Virgínia Souza Santos, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba

Nutricionista

Vitor Hugo da Costa Gomes Moreira Teixeira, Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto (FCNAUP), Porto, Portugal

Nutricionista.

Martha Elisa Ferreira de Almeida, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Rio Paranaíba

Nutricionista. Doutora. Docente do Curso de Nutrição, Campus Rio Paranaíba, Universidade Federal de Viçosa.

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Published

2019-07-03

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019)

Section

Artigos Originais

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