Impact of Nutrition Education on Knowledge and Beliefs About Dietary Supplements/Herbal Foods

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05645120

GO 21/129

Details and patient eligibility

About

A two session nutrition education intervention was administered to health professionals and non-health professionals in separate sessions. Nutrition knowledge status was evaluated with comparing the pre-test and post-test values.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of nutrition education intervention of health professionals and non-health professionals about the effectiveness of dietary supplements/herbal foods (DS/HF) in COVID-19. Study design is a cross-sectional study with an education intervention. This study was conducted through online video communication application. Overall, 106 health professionals and 110 non-health professionals completed the study. The education intervention was administered in two sessions, one week apart for both health professionals and non-health professionals separately. Knowledge level of nutrition and COVID-19 and beliefs about DS/HF in the prevention/treatment of COVID-19 were evaluated with a pre-test and post-test setting. Comparison of the groups before and after the intervention was implemented with the McNemar's test.

Enrollment: 226 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being 18 to 65 years old
• using social media
• being able to understand Turkish

Exclusion criteria

• regular supplement use prior to COVID-19 pandemic
• having a chronic disease that requires dietary supplementation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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226 participants in 2 patient groups

Health Professionals

Experimental group

Description:

Education intervention for health professionals

Treatment:

Other: Education

Non-health Professionals

Experimental group

Description:

Education intervention for non-health professionals

Treatment:

Other: Education