1. How practice meets guidelines: evaluation of nutrition counselling in Finnish well-women and well-baby clinics
- Author
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Ulla Hoppu, Kirsi Laitinen, Erika Isolauri, and Anu Huurre
- Subjects
Counseling ,Postnatal Care ,Maternal-Child Health Centers ,MEDLINE ,Breastfeeding ,Prenatal care ,Child Nutrition Sciences ,Nursing ,Patient Education as Topic ,Pregnancy ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,medicine ,Humans ,Finland ,Maternal-Child Nursing ,Vitamin d supplementation ,Health professionals ,business.industry ,Infant Care ,Infant, Newborn ,Prenatal Care ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Diet ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Female ,business - Abstract
Aim: To assess the current practices of nutrition counselling given by nurses in well-women (WW) and well-baby (WB) clinics in Finland. Design: A semi-structured questionnaire was distributed to nurses and their clients in clinics nationwide. Main outcome measures: The source and the quality of nutrition counselling and specific conditions including allergic diseases and vitamin D supplementation. Results: The clinics constituted the most important source of information for the clients. Personal counselling was highly appreciated. However, 83% of pregnant women reported having received dietary counselling, which deviates from the figure reported by nurses (99%, p=0.0003). Counselling concerning allergies was targeted to reduce the risk of infant allergy by means of elimination diets. In contrast to the report of the nurses (60% in WW and 18% in WB clinics), only 16% (p
- Published
- 2006