Percepción de seguridad alimentaria, peso corporal, hábitos y estilos de vida en agentes educativas ICBF centro zonal 3-Norte de Santander.

Abstract

The current situation of health, economic and social emergency in the world, of which Colombia is no exception, has forced public and private institutions to adapt their work methodology and with it has imposed changes in the routines of daily life. This study aims to identify the perception of food security and changes in body weight and living habits of educational agents in traditional homes belonging to the zonal 3 center of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute in Norte de Santander, during the isolation or quarantine following the COVID-19. It can be presumed that the modifications in the development of their work from home, lead to changes in the level of physical activity, in their habits of food consumption, in the availability and access to food, as well as in their body weight. The study made it possible to establish a socio-demographic characterization of the target population, which has been useful for crossing variables that allow establishing the relationship with the perception of changes in each of the items evaluated. Likewise, developing this proposal has allowed obtaining relevant information in the identification of possible risk factors or causal factors of alterations in the state of health and feeding of the object population. Currently, there is no baseline or similar study in this population, which became a fundamental element for the development of this proposal. Once the information collection instrument was applied, the results were interpreted and analyzed, showing that 84.9% of the households of the educational agents of the ICBF's APHCB are perceived to be food insecure, with a predominance of 53.9% who are slightly food insecure. On the other hand, the main changes in eating habits and lifestyles of the educational agents of the ICBF's APHCB correspond to modifications due to an increase or decrease in body weight in 48% of the population; intake of an average of 8 glasses of water per day associated with maintaining their usual water consumption during quarantine. With regard to physical activity, according to the study, educational agents perform less physical activity during quarantine by 48.4%. Another significant change is in the number of hours of sleep, with 71.1% of education agents reporting fewer hours of sleep per day during quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic.