O adolescente em cumprimento de medida socioeducativa sob perspectiva dos estilos parentais e insegurança alimentar

Abstract

Adolescence is legally identified in Brazil as a period between 12 and 18 years of age, which are experienced biopsychosocial level transformations. If adolescents present behavior in conflict with the law, educational measures may be applied in open or closed. Monitoring the family and adolescent in the fulfillment of socio-educational measures amid open to provide Services to the community and Assisted Freedom takes place through the Centro de Referência Especializado de Assistência Social (CREAS). The present research is characterized as descriptive, qualitative measures, and aimed to assess the parental style and food insecurity of seventeen families of teenagers in fulfillment of socio-educational measure on the CREAS of County of Dois Vizinhos, State of Paraná, considering these as factors that promote impacts on regional development and in the performance of public policies. The application of Parental Styles inventory to teens and their mothers, and in these, the implementation of Escala Brasileira de Insegurança Alimentar (EBIA) to know the percentage of food insecurity of these families. The results show that teens have assessed their mothers with a below-average parenting style in ten cases (58.8%), it was noted in the assessment of mothers about their own conduct. On average between the results of teenagers and mothers compared, only one family (5.9%) achieved great result, five families (29.4%) were classified as at risk, and four families (23.5%) in regular situation. Applying the Wilcoxon test identified that the answers of the adolescents and their mothers in relation to parental style did not show significant variation, with exception to the moral behavior, where there was no difference between the perception of the teenagers and their mothers. The results of the application of EBIA pointed to the existence of 24% of the surveyed families in situation of food security. Mild food insecurity was observed in 24% of households, moderate for 35% of families and serious in 17% of families surveyed. The degrees of food insecurity are high compared to other samples of the population, however, no similar studies have been found. Identifies this way parental style and food insecurity are variables that make up the framework of vulnerability to which are subjected teenagers in conflict with the law, requiring the joint performance of public policies to overcome the hazard identified