Fatores que interferem na adesão à alimentação escolar na percepção de estudantes da rede pública de ensino do município de Trindade-Go

Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify the social, economic and cultural factors that interfere in the adherence to school feeding. The National School Feeding Program (PNAE) is a school feeding policy whose main objective is to provide adequate food in quantity and quality to meet the nutritional needs of the student during the period in which he remains in school. This was a descriptive qualitative research, carried out in May 2019 through the use of a semi-structured questionnaire, with students from a state school in the municipality of Trindade-GO attending elementary school from the 6th to the 8th grades of the afternoon shift. In the results were identified, from the speech of some students, socioeconomic, cultural, sensorial and hygienic sanitary factors that hinder the students' adherence to school feeding. These results raise the importance of monitoring the problems identified for better reformulation and planning of the Program, aiming to guarantee the food and nutritional security of the students served by the program.