Aloud Abdulrhman, Sekhar Chandra
Family and Community Medicine, Family Medicine Academy, Qassim Health Cluster, Buraidah, SAU.
Cureus. 2024 Mar 14;16(3):e56145. doi: 10.7759/cureus.56145. eCollection 2024 Mar.
Overnutrition plays a vital role in the development of a spectrum of non-communicable diseases. Diet-related disorders have a huge impact on personal health as well as the country's economy for the management of such disorders. The study aims to assess the primary healthcare physicians' nutrition competency, which will be beneficial for evaluating the current situation and future strategies, training, nutrition care, and disease prevention.
Among 147 primary healthcare physicians by simple random sampling from four cities and two rural areas of Qassim, Saudi Arabia, from December 2022 to December 2023 using a validated (NUTCOMP) tool. Data were entered, cleaned, and analyzed with SPSS software version 21.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY). Informed consent was obtained from all study participants. Chi-square and ANOVA tests were applied to draw the significant differences.
A total of 147 participants enrolled in this study, and the mean age and standard deviation (SD) of the study population were 34.38 ± 6.57. More than half of the physicians (n = 76, 51.7%) continued education on nutrition. Significant mean differences were observed between some and focused nutrition content received physicians versus no nutrition content received physicians concerning nutrition skill, communication, and nutrition attitude consecutively (P < 0.0001, P < 0.0001, and P < 0.0001). The mean nutrition knowledge, skill, communication, attitude score, and SD of PHCC physicians were 26.91 ± 5.42 (maximum 35), 31.19 ± 6.18 (maximum 40), 36.73 ± 7.48 (maximum 45), and 34.74 ± 6.23 (maximum 40), respectively.
Our study results show primary healthcare physicians perceive themselves to have good nutritional competency.
营养过剩在一系列非传染性疾病的发展中起着至关重要的作用。与饮食相关的疾病对个人健康以及国家用于管理此类疾病的经济都有巨大影响。本研究旨在评估基层医疗医生的营养能力，这将有助于评估当前状况和未来策略、培训、营养护理及疾病预防。
2022年12月至2023年12月期间，通过简单随机抽样从沙特阿拉伯卡西姆的四个城市和两个农村地区选取了147名基层医疗医生，使用经过验证的（NUTCOMP）工具。数据录入、清理后使用SPSS 21.0软件（IBM公司，纽约州阿蒙克）进行分析。所有研究参与者均获得了知情同意。应用卡方检验和方差分析来得出显著差异。
共有147名参与者纳入本研究，研究人群的平均年龄和标准差（SD）为34.38±6.57。超过一半的医生（n = 76，51.7%）接受过营养方面的继续教育。在接受过某些和重点营养内容培训的医生与未接受过营养内容培训的医生之间，在营养技能、沟通和营养态度方面依次观察到显著的平均差异（P < 0.0001，P < 0.0001，P < 0.0001）。基层医疗中心医生的平均营养知识、技能、沟通、态度得分及标准差分别为26.91±5.42（满分35）、31.19±6.18（满分40）、36.73±7.48（满分45）和34.74±6.23（满分40）。
我们的研究结果表明基层医疗医生认为自己具备良好的营养能力。
