1Ali Raza, 2 Ismat Ullah Abid, 3Mobeen Ali, 4Mohib Ali, 5Umar Khan, 6Dr. Ijaz Aziz
1PIMS
2 MspH in 2022 from HAS, Islamabad
3PIMS
4PIMS
5PIMS
6Associate Professor, Mekran Medical College Turbat
Correspondence: Ali Raza, PIMS
Abstract
Background: Diet is therefore a major factor in the wellness or ill health in that case, hence the importance of nutrition in the prevention and controlling of chronic diseases. Nevertheless, there is an important deficiency in the education of healthcare providers with regard to nutrition instruction, which constrains their capacity to promote dietary behaviour modification sensibly among patients. This is an area that needs to be addressed the most in order to improve the quality of patient care and to encourage a healthier population.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to sum up the results of efforts to implement nutrition education into healthcare provider continuing professional development and to analyse effects of such education on the providers’ contents for dietary counselling and on the tendencies of patients’ diets.
Method: In a randomized control trial, 200 medical staff were assigned into the experimental group which was introduced to a six week nutrition education program and a control group with the regular practice. The intervention involved the nutrition science sections, the dietary guidelines and behaviour change sections. Both quantitative and qualitative data were obtained before and after the intervention in terms of the providers’ information and the patients’ results.
Results: The knowledge of the healthcare providers concerning Ebola increased greatly from 65 % to 85 % and skills from 60% to 80% after the training. For patients assessed by trained providers about their dietary counseling, the patients had a high level of diet consciousness (45% to 70%) and other aspects of healthy eating habits. Such results therefore serve to support the conclusion that the training program improves competence among the providers as well as the health status of patients.
Conclusion: Assuming charge of nutrition education in the training program of the healthcare providers displays a positive relationship between the provider competency and the health of their patients, and this is attributed to the fact that few patients require assistance in the change of dietary behaviour. The findings of this study underscore the need for expansion of the healthcare curricula to include more information about nutrition in efforts to confront the increasing incidence of chronic diseases.
Keywords: Nutrition education, healthcare provider training, dietary behavior change, chronic disease management, patient outcomes, randomized controlled trial.