Características do consumo alimentar entre residentes de um Hospital Universitário de Alagoas

Abstract

Multiprofessional residences and in the health professional area, created from the enactment of Law No. 11,129 of 2005 and although they are a gold standard postgraduate style, it is an exhausting period of intense work, making residents a risk group for the development of emotional and dysfunctional disorders and deleterious consequences for eating behavior. Thus, the objective of this study was to characterize the food consumption of residents in the residency programs offered by the Professor Alberto Antunes University Hospital of the Federal University of Alagoas (HUPAA/UFAL). This is a cross-sectional survey conducted with resident professionals inserted in one of the residency programs offered by HUPAA / UFAL through an online questionnaire from Google Docs, containing personal, health and food frequency questionnaires. The show was made up of 66 residents of the 140 who were expected. The predominance of female participants (78.8%). The mean age was 28 ± 3.23. Residents of HUPAA/UFAL seem to have satisfactory characteristics of food consumption with regard to the ingestion of fresh or minimally processed foods, mainly with regard to the consumption of vegetables, following the “golden rule” of the Food Guide for the Brazilian Population. This characteristic is due to the presence of the cafeteria supervised by nutritionists, which offers the main meals to residents, free of charge, suggesting the great importance of the presence of the restaurant on the consumption of healthy food.