Survey on nutritional knowledge and dietary behavior of clinical nurses
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2016.14.022
- VernacularTitle:临床护士营养学知识及饮食行为现状调查
- Author:
Yi GONG
1
;
BeiBei GAO
;
Qianyun LIU
Author Information
1. 239000 安徽省滁州市第一人民医院科教科
- Keywords:
Nurse;
Nutritional knowledge;
Dietary behavior
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2016;22(14):2010-2012
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To understand and improve the dietary habits and nutritional knowledge of clinical nursing staff in general hospitals,which in turn provides a theoretical basis for the implementing the health education of dietary and nutrition for patients and their families.Methods A total of 200 clinical charge nurses were investigated using the questionnaireabout public nutritional knowledge.Results 1 88 of total 200 pieces of questionnaires were returned withthe valid rate 94%.There was significantly different in mastering nutritional knowledge among nurses with varying educational degree (P <0.01 ).Investigation results of dietary behavior demonstrated that 78.7% of investigate nurses had regular breakfast and 76.6% had regular three meals every day.84.0% nurses concerned about balanced intake of nutrient and 77.1 % possessed a proportionalratio of refined grain to roughage in daily diet.Population of nurses who chose water instead of carbonated beverage accounted for 77.1 %,while only 57.4% nurses did not have the habit of picky eating. Only 66.0% nurses had not been on diet as a way for losing weight.In terms of approach of nutritional knowledge achievement,1 4.9% clinical nurses adopted formal classroom teaching,and 65.4% used television and internet.In addition,1 9.7% surveyed nurses learned through books or others′narration,with 3 of them choosing “office coaching”and “television and internet”.Conclusions The understanding of nutritional knowledge in clinical nurses is poor and needs to be strengthened by further education by formal education and training accompanying with distribution of related materials to improve the nutritionalknowledge of nurses, elevate their nursing quality and dietary habit for patients.
