Assessment of the Health Workers Knowledge About Nutrition in an University Hospital
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Mehmet Turan İnal; Dilek Memiş; Murat Kargı; Necdet Süt
- Source
- Türk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, Vol 8, Iss 2, Pp 66-72 (2010)
- Subject
- Nutrition
malnutrition
intensive care
Medicine
Internal medicine
RC31-1245
Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
RC86-88.9
- Language
- English
Turkish
- ISSN
- 2146-6416
2147-267X
Objective: Clinicians must know the definitions of malnutrition for diagnose and early treatment. This study assessed the knowledge of anesthesia residents, surgery residents and intensive care nurses about nutrition that are usually studied on the patients with malnutrition. Materials and Methods: We applied a inquiry to 80 residents and nurses working in an university hospital. The inquiry was consist of 20 questions about nutritional aspects, oral/enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition. The one-way ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis and chi-squre tests were used to compare variables between groups. Results: Anaesthesists group scored significantly than other groups in questions about nutritional aspects. Statistically difference was detected between anaesthesists group and intensive care nurses group (p