Promotion of healthy nutrition in clinical practice: A cross-sectional survey of practices and barriers among physiotherapists in southeast Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorAbaraogu, Ukachukwu O.
dc.contributor.authorOgaga, Mary O.
dc.contributor.authorEric, Odidika
dc.contributor.authorFrantz, Jose M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-09T14:11:09Z
dc.date.available2017-06-09T14:11:09Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Healthy diet counselling is an important concept in health promotion. Physiotherapists are well positioned to initiate or support healthy nutrition in addition to physical activity counselling, in routine patient consultation. OBJECTIVE: To determine the practices about and barriers to diet counselling practices among physiotherapists in Southeast Nigeria. METHODS: In this cross-sectional survey, a total of 140 questionnaires were distributed among physiotherapists. RESULTS: Overall, 103 physiotherapists responded. Physiotherapists are confident and consider the incorporation of dietary counselling very important and of high priority in their daily clinical work. They, however, assessed and counselled on dietary status opportunistically in patients. Notwithstanding, physiotherapists believed that the diet counselling they give could be effective in helping patients change their unhealthy dieting practices. Patients were also amenable to physiotherapists advocating on diet issues as part of their consultation. Several barriers to incorporating diet counselling into physiotherapy practice were identified, including lack of access to a dietician/health promotion staff/counsellors, lack of proper patient education materials, lack of expertise in relation to dietary risk factors' assessment and management, and uncertainty about what dietary services to provide.en_US
dc.description.accreditationScopus 2017
dc.identifier.citationAbaraogu, U. O. et.al. (2016). Promotion of healthy nutrition in clinical practice: A cross-sectional survey of practices and barriers among physiotherapists in southeast Nigeria. Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal, 35:21-29en_US
dc.identifier.issn10137025
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2953
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hkpj.2016.05.002
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHong Kong Physiotherapy
dc.rightsAll the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License
dc.subjectDiet risk factorsen_US
dc.subjectLifestyle practiceen_US
dc.subjectNutritional counsellingen_US
dc.subjectPhysical therapistsen_US
dc.subjectPreventing noncommunicable diseaseen_US
dc.titlePromotion of healthy nutrition in clinical practice: A cross-sectional survey of practices and barriers among physiotherapists in southeast Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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