Investigation and evaluation of disease associated nutrition knowledge, diet attitude and practice in patients with liver failure / 肠外与肠内营养

ABSTRACT

Objective:Based on the evaluation of the disease associated nutrition knowledge,diet attitude and practice (KAP) in patients with liver failure this study aimed to identify factors that correlated with KAP level,and to provide evidence for the disease specific nutritional education programs.Methods:In this study,178 patients with liver failure were randomized selected from a tertiary hospital between October 2015 and February 2017.Liver failure disease associated nutrition knowledge,diet attitude and practice were assessed through questionnaire.Results:The average score of disease nutrition KAP items in patients with liver failure wes (1.56 ± 0.44) points,with the highest average score of diet attitude was (1.80 ± 0.50) and the lowest average score of nutrition knowledge was (1.39 ± 0.60) points.There was a significant negative correlation between the KAP scores and the PG-SGA classification (P ＜ 0.01).Education level,family income,disease status are risk factor of disease nutrition KAP in patients with liver failure.Conclusion:Patients with liver failure are characterized by limited nutritional knowledge,active diet attitude,and moderate diet behavior.The improvement of nutrition knowledge,dietary attitude and behavior level in patients with liver failure is important.Those with lower level of education,lower income and shorter duration of disease should be given more attention.