THE INFLUENCE OF THE CURRICULAR CONTENTS OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY ON THE EATING PRACTICES OF NUTRITION STUNDENT IN A UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT:

Field Study at the Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences at Save University, Mozambique

Abstract

Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) is a right for people in the context of health promotion, based on food practices without compromising access to other essential needs, respecting particularities and cultural characteristics of each region. The FNS approach in the nutrition course curriculum responds to a multidisciplinary learning of students in the context of food consumption and in the minimization of increasingly growing nutritional problems. The objective of the study is to understand the curricular influences that FNS mobilizes regarding the eating practices of nutrition course trainees in a university environment. It is a field study with quali-quantitative research, based on an explanatory methodology, developed through a questionnaire supported by the poster "our food", Mozambican and semi-structured interview supported by the nutrition curriculum. The study population is composed of 18 participants of both sexes, 11 students aged 18 to 25 years of the 3rd year of college and 7 permanent teachers. The curriculum includes subjects with content directly and indirectly related to SAN, as well as subjects with unrelated content. The FNS discipline is little addressed in the course in relation to the contents of the other direct disciplines. There are limitations to implement the curriculum in the practical component due to the lack of internal resources in which teachers address more content about food production processes in relation to nutrition. The students' eating practice is based on the group of foods contained in the poster our food, preferably the building and protective foods.