Public Employees Adherence to Life Quality Program and Nutritional Intervention

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.2015390192101

Abstract

It is a non-controlled nutritional intervention study with three months length, which aimed to evaluate the adherence of
public employees to life quality program and nutritional intervention. Nutritional evaluation and individualized guidelines
were made and questionnaires regarding accession to the participants who left the nutritional monitoring. Began the study
52 individuals, mostly women (76,9%), with an average of 40,8 ± 8,9 years old. Any meaningful alteration was observed
after nutritional intervention. The rate of abandonment to nutritional intervention 55,8% and 78,3% of them gave up the
other program activities. The main reason for abandonment were dissatisfaction with the time of activities (44,4%), lack
of motivation (27,8%), and health problems (22,2%). Among employees who continued the physical activity and did not
returned to nutritional consultation, 60,0% reported difficulty in leaving job to attend the evaluations and 40,0% did not
feel motivated to return. The low adherence to the program and nutritional intervention may have contributed to the lack
of dietary and anthropometric modification. Evaluate intervention strategies becomes important to restructure the methods
and increase the participation of individuals.