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Revista de Salud Pública
versão impressa ISSN 0124-0064
Resumo
PIERRE ENRIQUEZ, Jean e HERNANDEZ-SANTANA, Adriana. Nutritional interventions in the improvement of food culture and sustainability in Honduran first-year university students. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.3, pp.1-. Epub 12-Jan-2023. ISSN 0124-0064. https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v23n3.91627.
Objective
To evaluate the effect of educational interventions on improving eating habits and adherence to the Mediterranean diet in Honduran university students during the time of COVID-19. The emancipation of the home makes university students face a new environment for planning their diet during the transition to their university life.
Methods
An observational cross-sectional descriptive cohort study was conducted between February and June 2020. The data presented in this study are derived from surveys of eating behaviors and adherence to the Mediterranean diet (DM) before and after nutritional educational interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results
The group with interventions improved their eating behaviors going from unhealthy (median: 14,4) to moderately healthy (median: 17,3); in the same way, it happened in the adherence to DM, going from low adherence (median: 7,6) to medium adherence (median: 8,3). In the control group, their adherence did not change, maintaining low adherence, nor their eating habits, remaining in unhealthy habits.
Conclusions
There is evidence that the Mediterranean dietary pattern may be an option to reduce health problems, especially in times of pandemic, which is why this research showed that a foreign dietary pattern can coexist in a Latin-American environment once its benefits are known.
Palavras-chave : Diet mediterranean; diet, healthy; food and nutrition education; feeding behaviour (source: MeSH, NLM).