Associação entre diferentes métodos de avaliação nutricional em pacientes com HIV/AIDS em um hospital público

Objective: To assess the nutritional status of individuals diagnosed with HIV/AIDS hospitalized in a public infectious diseases reference hospital, verifying the association between the different screening methods and the anthropometric evaluation. Methods: Descriptive, quantitative and cross-sectional study that evaluated 30 patients with HIV/AIDS in 2016, admitted within 72 hours in a public infectious diseases reference hospital of Fortaleza, Ceara, with data collection consisting in the application of subjective nutritional screening tools (MUST: Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool; ANSG: Subjective Global Assessment of Nutritional Status; and NRS-2002: Nutritional Risk Score-2002) and anthropometric measurements carried out for calculation of the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the Arm Circumference (AC), with subsequent classification according to the parameters described in the literature. The association between subjective and objective methods was evaluated using Fisher’s exact test, with p≤0.05. Results: Individuals of both genders, aged between 23 and 55 years, participated in the research. The BMI ranked 40.1% of them with thinness, while the AC diagnosed 89.3% (n=25) of the sample with malnutrition. Among the methods, MUST and NRS-2002 identified a higher percentage of patients at risk or with high nutritional risk. There was association only between the variables BMI and SGA (p=0.018), BMI and NRS-2002 (p=0.002), and BMI and MUST (p=0.018). Conclusion: The study found association between the three subjective methods and the assessment using the BMI. However, NRS-2002 and MUST proved more capable of identifying nutritional risk in comparison to SGA.