Title |
Adherence to nutritional recommendations and sociodemographic variables in patients with diabetes mellitus
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Published in |
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, August 2015
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DOI | 10.1590/s0080-623420150000400012 |
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Authors |
Maria Lucia Zanetti, Clarissa Cordeiro Alves Arrelias, Rosana Cristina Franco, Manoel Antônio dos Santos, Flávia Fernanda Luchetti Rodrigues, Heloisa Turcatto Gimenes Faria |
Abstract |
OBJECTIVETo determine if there is a relationship between adherence to nutritional recommendations and sociodemographic variables in Brazilian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.METHODSCross-sectional observational study using a stratified random sample of 423 individuals. The Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) was used, and the Fisher's exact test was applied with 95% confidence interval (p<0.05).RESULTSOf the 423 subjects, 66.7% were women, mean age of 62.4 years (SD = 11.8), 4.3 years of schooling on average (SD = 3.6) and family income of less than two minimum wages. There was association between the female gender and adherence to diet with adequate cholesterol content (OR: 2.03; CI: 1.23; 3.34), between four and more years of education and adherence to fractionation of meals (OR: 1 92 CI: 1.19; 3.10), and income of less than two minimum wages and adherence to diet with adequate cholesterol content (OR: 1.74; CI: 1.03, 2.95).CONCLUSIONAdherence to nutritional recommendations was associated with the female gender, more than four years of education and family income of less than two minimum wages. |
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Student > Master | 10 | 10% |
Researcher | 5 | 5% |
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Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 4% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 20% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
Arts and Humanities | 2 | 2% |
Computer Science | 2 | 2% |
Other | 8 | 8% |
Unknown | 38 | 38% |