Oficinas educativas de nutrição como estratégia para a promoção de modos de vida saudável

Abstract

Psychiatric disorder implies difficulties of individual, family, and social nature. The Community Centers in Belo Horizonte stand out in the network of services that substitute psychiatric institutionalization. The Community Centers services contribute for the construction of the project for the insertion of people with psychiatric disorder into society. The purpose of this article is to disseminate the results of the community outreach project named "Nutritional education for people with psychiatric disorder in a Community Center, through evaluation of the effectiveness of the educational workshops. The project was held at a Community Center in Belo Horizonte city, Minas Gerais and attended by people with psychiatric disorder. Structured interviews were carried out with the participants of the educational nutrition workshops, seeking to understand the impact of the project on the promotion of healthy lifestyle for people with psychiatric disorder. Educational workshops were held weekly on topics related to health, food and nutrition using ludic-pedagogical techniques. The results of the interviews were tabulated, and the content analysis was performed. Ninety-seven educational workshops were held between 2008 and 2016. The total number of participants was 582, with an average of six attendees per workshop, whose age ranged from 25 to 60. It was observed improvement in the eating habits of the participants in the educational nutrition workshops at the Community Center.