Atuação nutricional em tempos de COVID-19 em Unidade de Atenção Primária à Saúde: um relato de experiência

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic was mandatory for the search to think health in new ways. Through this, the research objective was to report on the nutritional actions developed in Primary Health Care in this pandemic period. This is a description of the activities accomplished between May and July 2020, at a Family Health Unit in southern Bahia, offering just essential services. Were attended by the nutritionist, predominantly, seniors in a socially vulnerable situation with a non-communicable disease (NCD) in a clinical decompensation situation. The call center actions proved to be impractical, and the smartphone application established an impediment. The nutritional services were directed to counseling using My plate adapted with regional food (valued the listening and the potential of users) and family participation. In this manner, it was noticed that nutritional counseling based on the user’s reality and family support, allowed the empowerment of these people and better control of NCD.