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Assessment of the nutritional awareness and basic knowledge levels of physicians working in the surgery clinic   
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Noyan Kafaoğlu
Melih Akıncı
Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Kerim Bora Yılmaz
İsmail Oskay Kaya
Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Zafer ERGÜL Prof. Dr. Zafer ERGÜL
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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Özet
Objective The clinical importance of nutritional awareness and assessment has become evident over the years. This study aimed to investigate the nutritional attitudes, personal perceptions and behaviors, and basic knowledge levels of physicians working in the General Surgery Clinic, University of Health Sciences. Methods A total of 37 physicians working in the General Surgery Clinic, University of Health Sciences were included in the study. A previously evaluated and proven Nutritional Questionnaire and Mini Knowledge Assessment Exam were applied to the participants. With the questionnaire, previous nutritional trainings, clinical nutritional awareness, personal nutritional competence, practice, and nutritional patient education were assessed. After the questionnaire, a multiple choice mini test was applied to evaluate basic nutritional clinical knowledge. Results The study sample included 37 physicians, including 19 (51.4%) specialist physicians and 18 (48.6%) residents working in the General Surgery Clinic, where nutritional evaluation was performed. It was observed that the participants highly approved of nutritional awareness and importance factors. Considering the participants’ application of nutritional parameters in the clinic, weak application was observed in 6 physicians (16.2%), moderate application in 25 physicians (67.6%), and strong application in 6 physicians (16.2%). In the results of the mini test applied for the knowledge evaluation of physicians, very low level of knowledge, low level of knowledge, medium level of knowledge, good level of knowledge, and very good level of knowledge were detected in 1 (2.7%), 1 (2.7%), 3 …
Anahtar Kelimeler
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü Diğer hakemli uluslarası dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Clinical science of Nutrıtıon
Dergi ISSN EISS-N266
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler DOAJ
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 03-2021
Cilt No 3
Sayı 1
Sayfalar -103 / -107
Doi Numarası 10.5152/ClinSciNutr.2021.21-1-4