RESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To find out whether dietetic education in children improve its effectiveness with participation of mothers. DESIGN: We made a field try. SETTING: Two primary schools in Taco (La Laguna). SUBJECTS: We included every students who was in 7.o course in both schools (139 children). INTERVENTION: We assigned the children of one school to the educative intervention with mothers and the other school to the dietetic education without mothers. The intervention consist of four lectures about the fat food and the good feed. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We measured the dietetic knowledge with a questionnaire. And we made two plasmatic analysis to measure the lipidemia pre and postintervention. We excluded unauthorized children and those with more than one absence in our four classes. Both children groups showed a significative improvement in their knowledge (p < 0.05). The cholesterolaemia only decreased in the group with mothers (p = 0.01). It had a pradoxical diminishment of cholesterol HDL at the beginning was greater than 170 mg/dl, the reduction was more important yet in the group with mothers. CONCLUSIONS: The dietetic education can have variations in its effectiveness according the method employed and people who receive it. In the dietetic education of children the inclusion of mothers improve its effectiveness.
