Professional competencies of the nutritionist to act in Collective Food: an Integrative review.
Competence, collective nutrition, nutritionist
The changes that have occurred in the scientific, political and labor spheres have a direct impact on the training of health professionals, and in this scenario, the role of the nutritionist in the management of collective food requires well-established professional skills, whose relevance lies in health promotion and disease prevention, therefore, the absence of research that deals with the theme of competences regarding the studied area motivated the present investigation. The objective was to analyze the evidence of validation of the standard of professional competences of the nutritionist in the Management of Collective Food. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Hospital Universitário Onofre Lopes under opinion No. 1,251,497. This is a qualitative and quantitative methodological research carried out from February 2017 to November 2019, in three sequential stages. Initially, the dimensions related to professional competences were mapped, then the Standards and Professional Performance for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists in Management of Food and Nutrition Systems (SSOP) were translated and adapted, related to the standard of service provision
In the third round, the instrument was sent again to the judges and asked to assign points for each item, with a variation of 1 to 10 points for each item, considering its degree of importance for the Management of Collective Food. The items were grouped at administrative levels (strategic, tactical and operational) and the statistical treatment was carried out to adjust the score, eight judges answered the request. The data were organized in electronic spreadsheets and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, using the Microsoft Excel program. To assess content validity, the Content Validity Index (CVI) was used, considering CVI ≥ 0.80 as acceptable. Before content validation, the instrument contained 119 items. After the judges' suggestions (exclusion and addition of items), the final instrument totaled 63 items. The composition of the instruments was considered accepted by the judges, using the indexes applied, suggesting evidence of content validation