background: patients knowledge and perceptions from hypertension and related nutrition as a central factor has important role in hypertension controlling. this study aimed to determine relationship between illness perceptions and nutritional knowledge with eating behaviors on rural hypertensive patients. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 671 hypertensive patients were selected as a multi-sta...

background: improper nutritional knowledge is one of the most important causes of nutritional problems, which can affect practice and cause more complications. the aim of this study was to assess the association between nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of iranian households with socioeconomic status (ses).   methods: the study population was 14,136 households (57 clusters of 8...

background: unhealthy nutrition is very influential in incidence of some diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes.  since the most unhealthy behaviors was originated from childhood or adolescence experiences, and proper nutrition during puberty has strong influence on health, therefore this study was to examined the effects of two educational methods on nutritional knowledg...

purpose :   nutrition is an important component of any physical fitness program. the main dietary goal for active individuals is to obtain adequate nutrition to optimize health fitness and to increase sports performance. the present study aims to assess the nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice among the selected athletes. methods:   athletes from five different private colleges situated i...

purpose nutrition is an important component of any physical fitness program. the main dietary goal for active individuals is to obtain adequate nutrition to optimize health fitness and to increase sports performance. the present study aims to assess the nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice among the selected athletes. methods athletes from five different private colleges situated in salem...

inappropriate feeding grounds for many common diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. this study was conducted to determine knowledge, attitude and nutrition and its relationship with body mass index (bmi) was to allow students using data and recognize the status quo and in order to increase awareness, attitude and nutrition of students and strengthen the indicators and t...

background: the research to date does not present an articulated approach to ensure nutrition and food systems education is systematically implemented within schools. this paper aimed to investigate food experts’ views of the best strategies to improve school‑leavers’ knowledge of nutrition and food systems. methods: in this qualitative study, 28 iranian food and nutrition experts from four maj...

nutritional care is an important part of medical care of patients and plays a key role in improvement, prevention and control of malnutrition in hospitals. the current study aimed to determine the nutrition knowledge level of doctors, nurses and nutritionists in some teaching hospitals in tehran in 2008. in a cross-sectional study a total of 198 samples including 28 nutritionists, 81 nurses and...

background: primary prevention status and goals in 2010 are promoting healthy weight and eating habits and dietary ma­nipula­tion considered in all reports to be the cornerstone of prevention and management of chronic diseases. since in de­velop­ing countries physicians are in the front line of responding patients' questions regarding their diet, we decided to evalu­ate their necessary nutritio...

despite the increased emphasis on chronic non-communicable diseases, there are notable deficits about nutrition education in many medicine training programs particularly gastroenterology fellowship programs. in the present cross-sectional study, we examined the nutritional knowledge related to clinical nutrition among iranian gastroenterology fellows. thirty-six gastroenterology fellows current...