Food consumption, quality of life, sociodemographic characteristics and work of teachers of a city in São Paulo, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Food consumption, quality of life, sociodemographic characteristics and work of teachers of a city in São Paulo, Brazil
Received 25th August 2017; Received in revised form 14th September, 2017; Accepted 17th October, 2017; Published online 30th November, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Cristiane Gomes da Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A cross-sectional study with the objective of verifying the quality of life, food consumption, sociodemographic and work characteristics of teachers of the municipal basic education network of a city in São Paulo, Brazil. In this research, 419 teachers participated, 94% were female, 59% were overweight and 70% needed to improve their living habits. There were no significant differences between the categories of feeding score in relation to age, teaching time, weekly workload and daily shifts of classes. The better the feeding score, the lower the body weight, body mass index and number of schools that act (p <0.05). It was concluded that teachers with better quality in the diet had better body weight and body mass index, performed in a smaller number of schools and had a better perception of the quality of life.
