نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد، کارشناس مسئول تغذیه حوزه معاونت بهداشتی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان، رفسنجان، ایران.
2 مربی، گروه آموزشی پزشکی اجتماعی، مرکز تحقیقات محیط کار، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان، رفسنجان، ایران.
3 استادیار، گروه آموزشی اپیدمیولوژی، آمار زیستی و مرکز تحقیقات محیط کار، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان، رفسنجان، ایران.
4 دانشجوی دکتری اپیدمیولوژی، کارشناس سالمندان حوزه معاونت بهداشتی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان، رفسنجان، ایران.
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Introduction: Health care staff can play an important role in changing nutritional habits and attitudes of a population. The aim of this study was to investigate the nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among health workers in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS) in 2016.
MaterialsandMethods: In this descriptive study, 289 health- care staff working at health centers, health units, and health houses of the RUMS were selected by census method. Data gathering tool was a structured questionnaire completed by self-administered NKAP (Nutritional, Knowledge, Attitude and Practice study). Data were analyzed using chi-square, Fisher's exact test, one-way ANOVA followed by Turkey’s multiple comparisons test.
Results: Results showed that the score mean and standard deviation of knowledge and practice of the employees were 31.33 ± 5.79 (out of 46) and 14.31 ± 2.60 (out of 20) respectively. Twenty-nine point one percent of samples and 33.2% of them had excellent nutritional knowledge and practice respectively. There was a significant relationship between nutritional knowledge and some of the demographic parameters including; gender, work experience, degree of education (p<0.001), job category, and employment status (p<0.001). This study also found a significant association between nutritional practice and the above-mentioned parameters as follows; gender (p=0.001), work experience (p<0.001), degree of education (p=0.037), job category (p=0.002), and employment status (p=0.003). The primary care staff had a desirable (positive) attitude about the 23 questions (96.5% - 62.1%) and an undesirable attitude for 8 questions. (77.9% - 42.9%)
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that participants had a well to excellent level of nutritional knowledge and practice. It seems that the nutritional training courses should be revised and updated particularly for male health workers with a lower degree of education or longer years of civil service.
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