Knowledge of the postgraduate health family program nurses on nutrition Conhecimentos em nutri o dos enfermeiros do curso de especializa o em Saúde da Família

Objective: To analyze the profile and the nutritional knowledge of nurse students specializing in Family Health in a University of Minas Gerais. Materials and Methods: Cross sectional study with nurses (n=18) from the postgraduate program at a university in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data collection was performed trough questionnaire application. The first one was composed of socio-demographic information. The second instrument contained 20 questions on general knowledge in nutrition, selected by the authors through a specific literature review on the subject. In the nutrition questionnaire analyses, we carried out test-retest reliability and Cronbach's alpha test for two professional nutritionists (α=0.95). The construction of the database and descriptive analysis was performed in SPSS version 17. Results: The sociodemographic variables that contributed most to the formation of the clusters were: marital status (p=0.040) and the presence of a nutritionist on staff (p=0.001). The first cluster was formed by female nurses (76.5%), not married (66.7%), living in the county (90.9%), working in the family health strategy (69.2%) and that had no nutritionist in the team (100.0%). The association between the number of correct answers about nutrition knowledge and the clusters was performed by the Mann-Whitney test. The mean score was 10.9 (±1.5) in cluster 1 and 13.8 (±1.9) in cluster 2, and the difference was statistically significant (p=0.021). Conclusion: We concluded that nurses who have nutritionists on staff had adequate knowledge related to different aspects of nutrition. Objetivo: Analisar o perfil e os conhecimentos de nutri o dos enfermeiros alunos do curso de especializa o em Saúde da Família em uma universidade de Minas Gerais. Materiais e Métodos: Estudo transversal descritivo com os enfermeiros (n=18) inseridos no curso de pós-gradua o em uma universidade de Minas Gerais, Brasil. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio da aplica o de questionários. O primeiro foi composto por informa es sócio-demográficas. O segundo instrumento continha 20 quest es sobre conhecimentos gerais em nutri o selecionadas pelos autores por meio de revis o da literatura específica para o tema abordado. Para o questionário sobre nutri o, foi realizado teste-reteste e teste Alpha de Cronbach por dois profissionais nutricionistas (α=0,95). A constru o do banco de dados e análise descritiva foi realizada no programa estatístico SPSS vers o 17. Resultados: As variáveis sociodemográficas que mais contribuíram para a forma o dos clusters foram: estado civil (p=0,040) e pr