A Study on Association of Nutrition Training and Nutrition Intervention Consciousness,Intervention Behaviors among Community Medical Staff in Hangzhou City / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To know the status of nutrition education of community medical staff and analyze its association with nutrition intervention consciousness and behaviors.Methods Three representative districts including Xiacheng,Gongshu and Westlake were selected and 846 community medical staff was involved in this study.Questionnaire investigation was applied to collect the information from mainly three aspects including training,consciousness and practice.Logistic stepwise regression analysis and Cochran -Mantel -Haenszel test were used.Results Most of the community medical staff was female (78.49%).78.95% of the staff had received the training of nutrition knowledge and its main influencing factor was working time.The Association was observed between the nutrition training and the preparation of nutrition consultation. The more training received,the higher self -assessment would be (P <0.05 ).Meanwhile,as the types of training increased,the awareness and attitude of medical staff was improved remarkably,such as knowing risks of unhealthy dietary,asking the dietary habit of the patients routinely,and advising patients to establish a good dietary habit to their children (all P <0.05 ).Nutrition training also had a positive association with nutrition intervention behavior ,such as implementing more measurement of blood pressure, weight, and blood cholesterol for community outpatients, communicating with them in the importance of balanced diet and proper nutrition,and giving weight loss suggestion to obese patients (all P <0.05).Conclusion Training on nutrition knowledge and intervention skills of community medical staff should be emphasized and reinforced in the future,in order to promote the effect on chronic diseases prevention of community -based intervention strategies.