Romina Buffarini

Dados Biográficos

ID1780804
NOMERomina Buffarini
PRENOMESRomina
SOBRENOMEBuffarini
ASSINATURABUFFARINI R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversidade Federal de Pelotas
ORCID0000-0002-6905-8767
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2016
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Interpersonal violence and dietary markers among adults

    Open AccessEmanuely Santos Marques, Juliana Dos Santos Vaz et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2025

    This study aimed to assess the relationship between psychological and physical interpersonal violence (IV) and healthy and unhealthy dietary markers of food consumption among Brazilian adults. The study utilized data from the 2019 Brazilian National Health Survey, which included a representative sample of 88,531 residents 18 years or older. The exposures encompassed psychological and physical IV within the 12 months preceding the interview. The o…

  • Descrição e avaliação de um escore de consumo de alimentos ultraprocessados para crianças

    Open AccessAnna Müller Pereira, Caroline Santos Costa et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2025

    OBJECTIVE: To present a screener for consumption of ultra-processed foods for children in early childhood, evaluating the ability of the score generated by this screener to reflect the participation of ultra-processed foods in children’s diets. METHODS: This study was conducted with a convenience subsample of the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort (n = 365). The mothers of the participating children answered a food consumption questionnaire the day before…

  • Exploring the relationship between ultra-processed food consumption and gut microbiota at school age in a Brazilian birth cohort

    Open AccessEtiene Dias Alves, Marina Xavier Carpena et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2025Referências: 50

    Dietary patterns significantly impact health outcomes and gut microbiota composition. However, longitudinal studies associating ultra-processed food consumption with gut microbiota composition, especially among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries, are lacking. This study aimed to explore this association using data collected from 364 participants at ages 6, 11, and 12 years from the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort. Microbiota data …

  • Nutritional Quality of School Breakfasts

    Open AccessMaría Elisa Zapata, Romina Buffarini et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Since 2016, the School Food Program in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, implemented a nutritional regulatory framework (NRF) and varying administration systems (AS). Here, we examined the association between the interventions (only NRF and NRF + AS) and breakfast nutritional and food indicators between 2016 and 2019. METHODS: Data collected from the Survey of the School Food Program, 2016-2019, were analyzed. The dependent variab…

  • Consumo de alimentos ultraprocessados por crianças de uma Coorte de Nascimentos de Pelotas

    Open AccessAnna Müller Pereira, Romina Buffarini et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2022

    OBJETIVO Avaliar o consumo habitual de alimentos ultraprocessados aos 24 meses de idade por crianças pertencentes à Coorte de Nascimentos de Pelotas de 2015 e os principais fatores demográficos, socioeconômicos e comportamentais relacionados ao consumo desses produtos. MÉTODOS Coorte de base populacional na cidade de Pelotas-RS, onde foram avaliadas 4.275 crianças ao nascimento, das quais 95,4% foram acompanhadas até os 24 meses. O consumo alimen…

  • Intimate partner violence against women and child maltreatment in a Brazilian birth cohort study

    Open AccessRomina Buffarini, Carolina De Vargas Nunes Coll et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and child maltreatment (CM) are major public health problems and human rights issues and may have shared causes. However, their overlap is understudied. We investigated the prevalence of IPV and CM, their co-occurrence in households and possible shared risk factors, in the general population of a Brazilian urban setting. METHODS: Prospective population-based birth cohort, including over 35…

  • Relative validity of a computer-based semi-quantitative FFQ for use in the Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Studies

    Open AccessJuliana Dos Santos Vaz, Romina Buffarini et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To assess the relative validity of a FFQ developed for the Pelotas Birth Cohort Studies. Design: Participants completed a ninety-two-food-item FFQ and then answered two 24-h recalls (24HR), one in-person interview and a second one by telephone, administered 14–28 d apart. Median and relative differences of energy, fifteen nutrients and eleven food groups were estimated based on the FFQ and the average of two 24HR. Nutrients were log-tr…

  • Gender norms and health

    Open AccessAnna Margaret Weber, Ann M Weber et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • Stability and change in fruit and vegetable intake of Brazilian adolescents over a 3-year period

    Open AccessRomina Buffarini, Ludmila Correa Muniz et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective To assess the stability and changes in fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption over a 3-year period during adolescence in a population-based birth cohort. Design Longitudinal descriptive study. FV consumption was collected in 2008 and 2011/12 using an FFQ. We conducted descriptive analyses of medians to assess the trends in FV intake over time. Stability of FV intake was assessed by percentage of agreement and kappa coefficients. Setting P…