Hygiena 2018, 63(4):135-139 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1637

Perception of nutrition education by the Czech population of 40+

Věra Olišarová, Valérie Tóthová, Sylva Bártlová, Ivana Chloubová, Helena Michálková, Lenka Šedová, Kristýna Toumová, Marie Trešlová

Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, Ústav ošetřovatelství, porodní asistence a neodkladné péče, České Budějovice, Česká republika

Nutrition plays an important role in the origin and development of noncommunicable diseases. The influencing of the origin of these diseases as well as the effectiveness of the healing process in relation to eating habits has been proven. The goal of this article consists in showing the present state of education in nutrition in view of the health worker and the population of 40+ and whether patients consider this information to be useful. In order to determine the status and description of current nutrition education, the partial data obtained from the questionnaire survey were used. The investigation took place all over the Czech Republic during 1.4. - 20.4. 2016. The data obtained was analysed implementing the SASD program, version 1.4.12. The selected group of physicians consisted of 1,000 respondents, the selected group of nurses consisted of 1,000 respondents and the selected group of citizens consisted of 1,992 respondents aged 40 years and more. From the answers of physicians and nurses it is evident that interest in nutrition information is predominant in their patients. The responses of citizens aged 40 and more indicate that physicians talk more often about nutrition with men, patients in higher age groups, patients with basic education, widowed patients, and with old-age and invalidity pensioner patients. It is similarly the case with nurses who more often talk about this issue also with vocational school leavers and citizens of larger municipalities. These findings give us feedback in defining the weaknesses of the education process and they point out target groups that should not be negleted in the education process.

Keywords: nutrition, dietary habits, health education, health literacy

Received: September 2018; Accepted: November 15, 2018; Published: November 30, 2018  Show citation