[Effect of education workshop on interns' knowledge of childhood nutrition and growth monitoring in Qazvin Medical School]

ABSTRACT

This interventional study was carried out to determine the effect of education workshop on interns' knowledge of Qazvin Medical School over childhood nutrition and growth monitoring in 2003-2004. All medical trainees [191] doing their health course on childhood nutrition and growth monitoring were selected. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed by Macnemar test. Based on results obtained in the present study, while 6.8% of interns were classified as having good knowledge before taking part in education workshop it reached to 63.9% after intervention [P<0.05].Furthermore, the two other groups of participants initially categorized as having intermediate [30.9%] and poor [62.3%] knowledge before the intervention decreased to 28.2% and 7.9%, respectively [P<0.05]. Results from this study emphasize on the necessity of holding workshop for medical students to promote their knowledge and experience associated with nutrition and growth monitoring chart