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Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals
Current dietary patterns, especially in high-income countries, are unsustainable. Health professionals, due to their credibility and close contact with the general population, could serve as agents of change for the adoption of sustainable diets. The objective of this study was to assess the knowled...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10389708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37528999 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1182226 |
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author | Fresán, Ujué Vidal-Carou, M. Carmen Ramos-Truchero, Guadalupe de Pipaon, Miguel Sáenz Moreno, Luis A. Salas-Salvadó, Jordi |
author_facet | Fresán, Ujué Vidal-Carou, M. Carmen Ramos-Truchero, Guadalupe de Pipaon, Miguel Sáenz Moreno, Luis A. Salas-Salvadó, Jordi |
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description | Current dietary patterns, especially in high-income countries, are unsustainable. Health professionals, due to their credibility and close contact with the general population, could serve as agents of change for the adoption of sustainable diets. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding sustainable diets among the health professionals in Spain. A 24-item online questionnaire was designed for this purpose, and sent to health professionals (i.e., dietitians-nutritionists, nurses, physicians, and pharmacists). From September 2021 to May 2022, 2,545 health professionals answered the survey completely. One-fifth of them had never heard the term “sustainable diet”, and most of them recognized having limited knowledge about it. They considered promoting sustainable diets when making dietary recommendations important, and pointed out that they would like to be trained on the topic. Indeed, they reported that all health professionals, independent of their career background, should be educated on sustainable diets. Efforts should be stressed on implementing training courses, at university level but also as continuous post-graduate training, providing health professionals in Spain the necessary knowledge to promote the adoption of sustainable diets among the population. |
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spelling | pubmed-103897082023-08-01 Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals Fresán, Ujué Vidal-Carou, M. Carmen Ramos-Truchero, Guadalupe de Pipaon, Miguel Sáenz Moreno, Luis A. Salas-Salvadó, Jordi Front Nutr Nutrition Current dietary patterns, especially in high-income countries, are unsustainable. Health professionals, due to their credibility and close contact with the general population, could serve as agents of change for the adoption of sustainable diets. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding sustainable diets among the health professionals in Spain. A 24-item online questionnaire was designed for this purpose, and sent to health professionals (i.e., dietitians-nutritionists, nurses, physicians, and pharmacists). From September 2021 to May 2022, 2,545 health professionals answered the survey completely. One-fifth of them had never heard the term “sustainable diet”, and most of them recognized having limited knowledge about it. They considered promoting sustainable diets when making dietary recommendations important, and pointed out that they would like to be trained on the topic. Indeed, they reported that all health professionals, independent of their career background, should be educated on sustainable diets. Efforts should be stressed on implementing training courses, at university level but also as continuous post-graduate training, providing health professionals in Spain the necessary knowledge to promote the adoption of sustainable diets among the population. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10389708/ /pubmed/37528999 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1182226 Text en Copyright © 2023 Fresán, Vidal-Carou, Ramos-Truchero, Pipaon, Moreno and Salas-Salvadó. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Nutrition Fresán, Ujué Vidal-Carou, M. Carmen Ramos-Truchero, Guadalupe de Pipaon, Miguel Sáenz Moreno, Luis A. Salas-Salvadó, Jordi Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals |
title | Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals |
title_full | Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals |
title_fullStr | Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals |
title_short | Knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among Spanish health professionals |
title_sort | knowledge, attitude, and patient advice on sustainable diets among spanish health professionals |
topic | Nutrition |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10389708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37528999 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1182226 |
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