results: most addict patients had a medium level of education. improvement in knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of patients after intervention was observed as follows; decreasing kap in poor level (2.8% vs. 30.6%), (3% vs. 50%), (25% vs. 80.6%), respectively; also, increasing kap in fair level (7% vs. 55.6 %), (15% vs. 15%), (19% vs. 7%), respectively and increasing kap in satisfactory lev...

background and objectives: regarding the high prevalence of unhealthy food habits among iranian children, we aimed to assess the effect of a school-based nutrition education program on nutritional status of primary school students in shiraz. materials and methods: this randomized educational controlled trial was carried out on 221 primary school age children selected by cluster sampling in the ...

background: nutrition is the most significant factor affecting the health statue of individuals and their longevity.in this respect , children and adolescents are more dependent to a healthy nutrition in order to have adequate physical growth and mental development and to be able to prevent chronic diseases in future. therefore , encouraging this age groups for following healthy nutritional beh...

background and purpose: nutrition plays a key role in maintaining and promoting health and preventing diseases. in most medical schools, nutrition education is not sufficient and only 26% of college students have proper nutritional education programs. physicians should use their knowledge through education and counseling with patients and healthy people to increase people’s level of health. poo...

OBJECTIVES To identify the research priorities for medical nutrition education worldwide. DESIGN A 5-step stakeholder engagement process based on methodological guidelines for identifying research priorities in health. PARTICIPANTS 277 individuals were identified as representatives for 30 different stakeholder organisations across 86 countries. The stakeholder organisations represented the ...

conclusions a nutritional education intervention will have a positive effect on nutritional awareness of pregnant women. results the awareness level of pregnant women about healthy nutrition was significantly increased from 3% before intervention to 31% after the nutritional education intervention (p < 0.001). this significant difference was independent from maternal characteristics of age and ...

Four hundred and forty-four high-risk oncology patients with malnutrition participated in this study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of nutrition education on improving an oncology patient's dietary intake. We used a nutritional risk screening to select oncology patients in need of nutritional care. Team Nutrition provides technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for patie...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Within a multicentre randomized controlled trial aimed at improving the nutritional status and increase the speed of recovery of elderly hip fracture patients, we performed a process evaluation to investigate the feasibility of the intervention within the present Dutch health care system. METHODS Patients in the intervention group received nutritional counseling during 10 co...