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

NCT05645120 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: GO 21/129
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 226
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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.

Conditions

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Keywords

nutrition education; dietary supplements; herbal supplements

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Knowledge Level

  Comparison of mean scores from pre-test and post-test

  2 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Health Professionals

EXPERIMENTAL

Education intervention for health professionals

Other: Education

Non-health Professionals

EXPERIMENTAL

Education intervention for non-health professionals

Other: Education

Interventions

Education OTHER

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.

Health Professionals; Non-health Professionals

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 19 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hacettepe University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hacettepe University

Ankara, 06100, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior

Interventions

Educational Status

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Socioeconomic Factors; Population Characteristics

Study Officials

• Zeynep Goktas, PhD

  Hacettepe University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 1, 2022
• First Posted: December 9, 2022
• Study Start: June 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 30, 2021
• Study Completion: March 1, 2022
• Last Updated: December 13, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)