Impact of Nutrition Education on Knowledge and Beliefs About Dietary Supplements/Herbal Foods

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact of Nutrition Education on Knowledge and Beliefs About Dietary Supplements/Herbal Foods: A Pre - Post Intervention Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05645120
• Other study ID #: GO 21/129
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: December 2022
• Source: Hacettepe University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A two session nutrition education intervention was administered to health professionals and non-health professionals in separate sessions. Nutrition knowledge status was evaluated with comparing the pre-test and post-test values.

Description:

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of nutrition education intervention of health professionals and non-health professionals about the effectiveness of dietary supplements/herbal foods (DS/HF) in COVID-19. Study design is a cross-sectional study with an education intervention. This study was conducted through online video communication application. Overall, 106 health professionals and 110 non-health professionals completed the study. The education intervention was administered in two sessions, one week apart for both health professionals and non-health professionals separately. Knowledge level of nutrition and COVID-19 and beliefs about DS/HF in the prevention/treatment of COVID-19 were evaluated with a pre-test and post-test setting. Comparison of the groups before and after the intervention was implemented with the McNemar's test.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 226
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 19 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• being 18 to 65 years old
• using social media
• being able to understand Turkish

Exclusion Criteria:

• regular supplement use prior to COVID-19 pandemic
• having a chronic disease that requires dietary supplementation

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Intervention

Other:
• Education
All participants attended to a two-part nutrition education program. The education intervention program was administered in two sessions, one week apart. Before the intervention, a pre-test was administered to determine the knowledge and beliefs attitudes of participants. After the pre-test each session consisted of a PowerPoint presentation of about 20 minutes. Education topics included components of adequate-balanced nutrition and its relationship with COVID-19, introduction of food groups, the association between COVID-19 and dietary supplements, herbal foods in the prevention/treatment of COVID-19, considerations regarding DS/HF, food-drug interactions, and COVID-19 drugs and food interactions. The presentation was concluded with the nutritional recommendations for COVID-19. The post-tests were shared with the participants at the end of the second session of the education intervention.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Hacettepe University	Ankara

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hacettepe University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Knowledge Level	Comparison of mean scores from pre-test and post-test	2 weeks