Pool of items to measure Primary Health Care workers' knowledge on healthy eating.

Objective: To develop and validate a self-applicable instrument for measuring primary health care (PHC) workers' knowledge on healthy eating.

Methods: A six-step methodological study to develop and validate a measurement instrument: item development based on the Brazilian Dietary Guidelines' chapters; content validation with a panel of experts; face validation with potential instrument users; online instrument reevaluation by participants of the content and face validation panels; online application of the instrument with PHC workers; confirmatory factor analysis for construct validation.

Results: A first version with 25 items underwent content and semantic changes in the content and face validation panels, being reorganized into a second version with 22 items.

Students' Perceptions of Team-based Learning in an Undergraduate Nutrition School.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Current challenges in the food and nutrition fields have required training nutritionists to develop teamwork skills, demanding the use of active methodologies.

Anthropometry and body composition of vertically HIV-infected children and adolescents under therapy with and without protease inhibitors.

Objective: Although the benefits of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have been documented, it is thought to be associated to disturbances in nutritional status. These disturbances may occur early in life and are poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between anthropometric parameters and body composition of perinatally HIV-infected children and adolescents under HAART, according to use and non-use of protease inhibitors.

Stages of changes for fruit and vegetable intake and their relation to the nutritional status of undergraduate students.

Objective: To assess the nutritional and dietetic profile of freshman Nutrition undergraduate students, and its association with stages of changes (Transtheoretical Model) for fruit and vegetable intake.

Methods: Demographic (age and gender), anthropometric (body mass index and waist circumference) and nutritional (pattern of fruit and vegetable intake) data were obtained. The Transtheoretical Model was used to identify the stages of change for fruit and vegetable intake.

Dyslipidaemia and insulin resistance in vertically HIV-infected children and adolescents.

This cross-sectional study determined the influence of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on the lipid profile and insulin sensitivity of 119 perinatally HIV-infected Brazilian patients aged 6-19 years. Inadequate high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) concentrations were observed in 81.4% of patients.