2.3. Data Collection
DIABETES MELLITUS
Data collection was carried out face-to-face by students from the –dietitian course and health professionals, previously trained and accompanied by a general field supervisor and the main researcher. This training was carried out every six months and a field manual was created to support data collection and standardize the collection of variables [The baseline was performed from February 2013 to June 2014; the nutritional intervention, lasting 7 months, was conducted between August 2013 and December 2014; and the reassessment was carried out 12 months after the baseline (March 2014 to March 2015).At baseline, sociodemographic data (sex, age, marital status, per capita family income, and years of education), health data (self-perception of health, practice of physical activity, reported morbidity: arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus), food consumption (24 h food recall—R24h), time of participation in the PAS (number of months that the individual had attended the health service by consulting the health service spreadsheet), and nutritional status (body mass index—BMI) were collected. For the calculation of the BMI [(BMI = weight(kg)/height(m)Food consumption was investigated by the average of two R24h applied on different non-consecutive days, or by just one R24h in cases where the second day was not answered [The homemade measures of the food and reported recipes were transformed into grams or milliliters using tables and manuals to assess food consumption [For the transformation of food into nutrients, the food database and the respective food amounts were associated with the nutritional composition table prepared by the Family Budget Survey [