How medical students' behaviors and attitudes affect the impact of a brief curriculum on nutrition counseling.
J Nutr Educ Behav
; 44(6): 653-7, 2012.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate a nutrition curriculum and explore the influence of medical students' own nutrition practices on its impact.METHODS:
An anonymous survey was given to first-year medical students attending a required course immediately prior to and 2 weeks after a 2-hour interactive nutrition curriculum intervention in a large private urban medical school in New York, New York. Main outcomes included self-reported nutrition counseling confidence, ability to assess diet, and nutrition knowledge measured using 4-point Likert scales.RESULTS:
One hundred eleven students completed surveys pre-curriculum (69%) and 121 completed them post-curriculum (75%). The authors found overall pre-post differences in dietary assessment ability (2.65 vs 3.05, P < .001) and counseling confidence (1.86 vs 2.22, P < .001). In addition to the curricular impact, students' nutrition-related behaviors and attitudes were positively associated with outcomes. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS A nutrition curriculum for medical students improves students' nutrition counseling-related confidence, knowledge, and skills even when controlling for personal nutrition-related behaviors.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Estudantes de Medicina
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Atitude Frente a Saúde
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Currículo
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Ciências da Nutrição
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2012
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Article