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The effect of a nutrition education intervention on knowledge, attitude, and intake of foods high in fats in women

BACKGROUND: Given that many Iranian were interested in the consumption of foods that are high in fats, the present study was done to determine the effect of a nutrition education intervention on knowledge, attitude, and intake of foods high in fat among a sample of women in Tehran. MATERIALS AND MET...

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Autores principales: Zeynalzadeh Borjloo, Fatemeh, Dehdari, Tahereh, Abolghasemi, Jamileh, Amiri, Fatemehsadat, Vasheghani-Farahani, Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8318140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34395653
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_1045_20
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author Zeynalzadeh Borjloo, Fatemeh
Dehdari, Tahereh
Abolghasemi, Jamileh
Amiri, Fatemehsadat
Vasheghani-Farahani, Ali
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Dehdari, Tahereh
Abolghasemi, Jamileh
Amiri, Fatemehsadat
Vasheghani-Farahani, Ali
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description BACKGROUND: Given that many Iranian were interested in the consumption of foods that are high in fats, the present study was done to determine the effect of a nutrition education intervention on knowledge, attitude, and intake of foods high in fat among a sample of women in Tehran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this quasi-experimental study, 92 female referrals to the health houses affiliated to Tehran municipal were selected and assigned to either intervention (n = 46) or control (n = 46) groups. Information (data) regarding women's knowledge, attitude, and practice in terms of foods rich in fat intake was collected by three questionnaires. Then, a nutrition education intervention included four 40–60 min training sessions over 4 weeks was designed and conducted to the study participants in the intervention group. Two groups were followed up 2 months after the intervention. Finally, all data were analyzed by using the independent-samples t-tests, Student's paired-samples t-test, and Pearson correlation analysis on the R software (version 6.3.2). RESULTS: The results showed that there were significant reductions in a positive attitude towards food with high fat content and intake of these foods in the intervention group compared with the control group after the intervention (P < 0.001). Furthermore, following the intervention, the intervention group reported a significant increase in dietary fat nutrition knowledge than the control group (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Developing nutrition education interventions is an effective strategy for reducing the consumption of foods rich in fat in Iranian women.
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spelling pubmed-83181402021-08-12 The effect of a nutrition education intervention on knowledge, attitude, and intake of foods high in fats in women Zeynalzadeh Borjloo, Fatemeh Dehdari, Tahereh Abolghasemi, Jamileh Amiri, Fatemehsadat Vasheghani-Farahani, Ali J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Given that many Iranian were interested in the consumption of foods that are high in fats, the present study was done to determine the effect of a nutrition education intervention on knowledge, attitude, and intake of foods high in fat among a sample of women in Tehran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this quasi-experimental study, 92 female referrals to the health houses affiliated to Tehran municipal were selected and assigned to either intervention (n = 46) or control (n = 46) groups. Information (data) regarding women's knowledge, attitude, and practice in terms of foods rich in fat intake was collected by three questionnaires. Then, a nutrition education intervention included four 40–60 min training sessions over 4 weeks was designed and conducted to the study participants in the intervention group. Two groups were followed up 2 months after the intervention. Finally, all data were analyzed by using the independent-samples t-tests, Student's paired-samples t-test, and Pearson correlation analysis on the R software (version 6.3.2). RESULTS: The results showed that there were significant reductions in a positive attitude towards food with high fat content and intake of these foods in the intervention group compared with the control group after the intervention (P < 0.001). Furthermore, following the intervention, the intervention group reported a significant increase in dietary fat nutrition knowledge than the control group (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Developing nutrition education interventions is an effective strategy for reducing the consumption of foods rich in fat in Iranian women. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8318140/ /pubmed/34395653 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_1045_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Education and Health Promotion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Zeynalzadeh Borjloo, Fatemeh
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Abolghasemi, Jamileh
Amiri, Fatemehsadat
Vasheghani-Farahani, Ali
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title_short The effect of a nutrition education intervention on knowledge, attitude, and intake of foods high in fats in women
title_sort effect of a nutrition education intervention on knowledge, attitude, and intake of foods high in fats in women
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8318140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34395653
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_1045_20
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