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Anales Venezolanos de Nutrición
versión impresa ISSN 0798-0752
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ABRACHE, Youssef y SOSA, Ingrid. Change in nutritional status in caregivers of children and teenagers with obesity during dietary treatment. An Venez Nutr [online]. 2015, vol.28, n.1, pp.004-010. ISSN 0798-0752.
The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the change in the nutritional status of caregivers for children and teenagers with obesity during a dietary treatment given to these patients at CANIA (Centro de Atención Nutricional Infantil Antímano) within the period 2005-2011. The anthropometric data of both caregivers and children, and teenagers (n = 145; ages= 2 to 16 years) was collected from their histories, building the indicators: body mass index (BMI) in adults and relative weight in children. 39.3 % of the caregivers were found to be overweight and 44.2 % were obese at baseline, 40.0 % of which maintained the overweight in their last recorded control and 41.4 % remained obese. The McNemar’s - Bowker test to value the qualitative change of the nutritional status in adults showed a p-value= 0.363. Additionally, the p-value of the Student’s t-test on related mean BMI was 0.002. Both tests were calculated at a significance level of α = 0.05. According to the relative weight, most children and teenagers at base line were classified with moderate and severe obesity (64.1 % and 26.9 % respectively), in the last control the most common diagnosis in this group were moderate and mild obesity (39.3 % and 26.2 % respectively). The nutritional status of caregivers showed no significant change during the time of the studied treatment; however, the mean BMI of caregivers resulted significantly lower. This study suggests the utility of including recorded anthropometric data of caregivers to monitor the nutritional status of the family group.
Palabras clave : Obesity; adults; caregivers; nutritional status; child; teenager.