المعارف والممارسات الغذائية فيما يتعلق بالأغذية الصحية والتغذية السريرية بين الممرضين العاملين في مستشفيات القدس الشرقية
Date
2013-05-11
Authors
عزيز سلمان سلامه العطاونه
azeez salman salamah attawna
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Publisher
AL-Quds University
جامعة القدس
جامعة القدس
Abstract
Abstract
Background: Good nutritional knowledge and practice among nurses is essential for
providing a high quality of care to patients. There are no known studies to date that have
evaluated nutritional knowledge and practice among Palestinian nurses.
Objectives: To assess the nutritional knowledge and selected practices regarding healthy
food and selected clinical nutritional items among nurses working at East Jerusalem
hospitals, furthermore to assess nurses' nutritional knowledge regarding healthy balanced
diet, macronutrient, and micronutrient, and to assess nurses' nutritional practices toward
their patients.
Methods: This is a descriptive cross sectional study, included all nurses who work in AlMakased
Hospital, Saint Joseph Hospital, Saint John Ophthalmology Hospital, Augusta
Victoria Hospital, and Red Crescent Hospital, and have direct contact with patients. 407
nurses participated in the study out of 466 nurses. Data on nutritional knowledge and
practices were collected by valid and reliable (Cronbach Alpha 0.81) self-administered
questionnaire, during the period September 2011 to November 2011. The relationships
between variables were analyzed by using the chi-square test (χ
2
test). The data were
analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 18.
Findings: The vast majority of the nurses participated in the study (86.8%) had a fair level
of overall nutritional knowledge. Most of the participants had a good level of knowledge
regarding balanced diet, and had fair level of knowledge about micronutrients like calcium
and iron and factors affecting their absorption. However, the participants had a poor level
of knowledge regarding selected clinical nutritional items. Significant relationships were
seen between nutritional knowledge regarding gender (P= 0.025), (female nurses had better
level than male nurses), curriculum content to nutritional courses (P=0.026), participant
method of training in the nutrition courses during their study (P=0.012), and participant
rating of the importance of having basic nutritional knowledge for nurses (P=0.001). More
than 85% of participants had good level of nutritional practice in this study. Significant
relationships were seen between nutritional practice regarding the hospitals were
participants work in (P=0.01), the presence of nutritional courses in the participant's
IV
nursing education (P=0.02), and participant's perceived level of nutritional knowledge
(0.001).
Conclusion: Result showed a poor level of knowledge in selected clinical nutritional
items, thus indicating a need for further training in areas like selected clinical nutritional
items, and food groups. Furthermore, there is a need for more detailed studies into factors
affecting nurses' nutritional knowledge and practices.
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الإدارة الصحية , Health Management