A Survey on the Nutritional Knowledge Level of Primary Medical Personnel in Shanghai and Analysis of Influencing Factors
Chen Yunfeng
Pan Yaping
Wang Beibei
Chen Lifang
Jiang Jian
Cao Ping
Abstract：OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status of nutritional knowledge among primary medical personnel in Shanghai and explore its influencing factors,in order to provide reference for community health service centers to carry out clinical nutritional work and treatment.METHODS A questionnaire survey was conducted on 348 medical staff from 8 community health service centers in Shanghai.RESULTS 48 people passed the nutrition professional knowledge questionnaire survey and 300 people did not pass it.88.51%of the respondents'units had no nutrition department and no full-time Dietitian,81.90%of the respondents participate in nutrition related learning and training for 0 time every year,and 78.45%of the respondents self evaluate that their current nutrition knowledge was difficult or did not meet the existing work needs at all.The results of univariate and multivariate statistical analysis showed that occupation,professional title,job position,dietary advice or nutrition education provided to patients or residents in the past month,and understanding of the NRS 2002 scale were possible influencing factors on the nutritional knowledge level of medical personnel,with statistical significance(P＜0.05).The top three most desirable nutritional knowledge contents for the survey subjects were clinical nutrition knowledge,elderly nutrition knowledge,and chronic disease nutrition knowledge.The top three ways that re-spondents most wanted to strengthen their nutrition knowledge through learning were lecture based systematic learning(lectures),E-learning of relevant media and academic conferences.The survey respondents believed that the top three major issues in the devel-opment of nutrition education were a shortage of professional knowledge,a lack of professional skills,and an unstable professional team.CONCLUSION The nutrition knowledge level of basic level medical personnel is generally low.It should speed up the construc-tion of nutrition discipline in basic level hospitals,pay attention to the training of clinical nutrition diagnosis and treatment ability of medical personnel,which was conducive to the development of standardized clinical nutrition diagnosis and treatment in communities.
Keywords：nutrition knowledgecommunity health service centerprimary medical personnel
Publication Date：2024-04-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 32-36 )