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ReviewFrontiers in public health2013

Nutrition training improves health workers' nutrition knowledge and competence to manage child undernutrition: a systematic review.

Bruno F Sunguya, Krishna C Poudel, Linda B Mlunde, David P Urassa, Junko Yasuoka, Masamine Jimba

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Bruno F SunguyaDepartment of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo , Tokyo , Japan.
Krishna C PoudelDepartment of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst , Amherst, MA , USA.
Linda B MlundeDepartment of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo , Tokyo , Japan.
David P UrassaSchool of Public Health and Social Sciences, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences , Dar es Salaam , Tanzania.
Junko YasuokaDepartment of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo , Tokyo , Japan.
Masamine JimbaDepartment of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo , Tokyo , Japan.
The University of Tokyo · JPMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences · TZUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMedical and nursing education lack adequate practical nutrition training to fit the clinical reality that health workers face in their practices. Such a deficit creates health workers with poor nutrition knowledge and child undernutrition management practices. In-service nutrition training can help to fill this gap. However, no systematic review has examined its collective effectiveness. We thus conducted this study to examine the effectiveness of in-service nutrition training on health workers' nutrition knowledge, counseling skills, and child undernutrition management practices.

methodsWe conducted a literature search on nutrition interventions from PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, ISI Web of Knowledge, and World Health Organization regional databases. The outcome variables were nutrition knowledge, nutrition-counseling skills, and undernutrition management practices of health workers. Due to heterogeneity, we conducted only descriptive analyses.

resultsOut of 3910 retrieved articles, 25 were selected as eligible for the final analysis. A total of 18 studies evaluated health workers' nutrition knowledge and showed improvement after training. A total of 12 studies with nutrition counseling as the outcome variable also showed improvement among the trained health workers. Sixteen studies evaluated health workers' child undernutrition management practices. In all such studies, child undernutrition management practices and competence of health workers improved after the nutrition training intervention.

conclusionIn-service nutrition training improves quality of health workers by rendering them more knowledge and competence to manage nutrition-related conditions, especially child undernutrition. In-service nutrition training interventions can help to fill the gap created by the lack of adequate nutrition training in the existing medical and nursing education system. In this way, steps can be taken toward improving the overall nutritional status of the child population.

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child undernutritioncounselinghealth knowledgehealth personnelin-service trainingnutritional sciences

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PMID24350206
PMCPMC3859930
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