NCT05645120

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

Impact of Nutrition Education on Knowledge and Beliefs About Dietary Supplements/Herbal Foods: A Pre - Post Intervention Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 226 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hacettepe University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education	All participants attended to a two-part nutrition education program. The education intervention program was administered in two sessions, one week apart. Before the intervention, a pre-test was administered to determine the knowledge and beliefs attitudes of participants. After the pre-test each session consisted of a PowerPoint presentation of about 20 minutes. Education topics included components of adequate-balanced nutrition and its relationship with COVID-19, introduction of food groups, the association between COVID-19 and dietary supplements, herbal foods in the prevention/treatment of COVID-19, considerations regarding DS/HF, food-drug interactions, and COVID-19 drugs and food interactions. The presentation was concluded with the nutritional recommendations for COVID-19. The post-tests were shared with the participants at the end of the second session of the education intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-30
• Completion: 2022-03-01
• First posted: 2022-12-09
• Last updated: 2022-12-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)