Perfil dos usuários do restaurante popular do município de Caxias do Sul - RS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The Popular Restaurants were created with the purpose of offering ready meals, healthy and affordable, aiming at reducing the number of people in food insecure situation. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the nutritional profile of the users of the Popular Restaurant of Caxias do Sul-RS. METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study, with a consecutive sample of users of both sexes, aged 19 years or older. A questionnaire with demographic, socioeconomic, anthropometric and health information was applied from January to March 2019. Data analysis was performed using the chi-square test for categorical variables and the Mann-Whitney U test for the numerical variables. RESULTS: total of 232 users were interviewed, the majority being male, 60 years old or older, with no partner and who studied up to 8 years. The prevalence of overweight in the total sample was 68.1%. When comparing the two sexes, statistically significant differences were found in smoking, alcohol consumption and prevalence of obesity and risk for CVD. Regarding the variables related to the use of the restaurant, 70.3% of the users frequented more than 3 times in the week, the main reason for choosing was the price and the meal served was evaluated as optimal. CONCLUSION: The nutritional profile of the RPOP users was characterized by individuals who do not belong to the labor market and who possibly seek in the restaurant, besides a quality meal, a social inclusion. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]