Essay On Nutritional Education

Nutrition Education

Nutritional education is define as a formal process to instruct or train a patient/client in a skill or to impart knowledge to help patient/clients in a voluntary way manage or modify food choices and eating behavior to maintain or to improve health (1).Nutrition education can be delivered using a variety of channels depending on the characteristics needs and preference of the audience (2). Every channel has its own description and use. The following are the most common channels use in nutrition interventions.

Face-to-face communication:

Can take place in two kinds of circumstances: interpersonal face-to-face (a nutritionist speaking to a patient) and face-to-face in a group (health educator giving an oral presentation

In a qualitative study among 50 participants in Ireland of 18 year and older, found that for most subjects the inclusion of fruits and vegetables was considered a healthy shopping (8). Some participant’s perceived barriers for shopping healthy foods was (1) a lack of self efficacy in choosing, preparing and cooking healthy foods, that included: limited time when shopping and cooking healthy foods, limited money, lack of cooking skills, inability to identify healthy foods in the store and (2) conflicting needs to satisfy self and others (8). A correctional study with a sample of 1,003 subject perform in Australia found that people with no post-school qualifications were two times more likely (OR 2.20, 95% CI 1.3-3.1) as those with bachelor degree or higher to be classified as low compliers with Australian Dietary Guidelines recommendations (9) . They also found that Blue collar employees (machine operators, drivers, labourers, etc.) (OR 2.52, 95% CI 1.6-3.9) and residents of low income household (OR 3.15 95% CI 2.0 -5.1) were more likely to have a food purchasing profile that differed from the recommendations