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Nutrition Training Improves Health Workers' Nutrition Knowledge And Competence To Manage Child Undernutrition: A Systematic Review, Bruno F. Sunguya, Krishna C. Poudel, Linda B. Mlunde, David P. Urassa, Junko Yasuoka, Masamine Jimba
Nutrition Training Improves Health Workers' Nutrition Knowledge And Competence To Manage Child Undernutrition: A Systematic Review, Bruno F. Sunguya, Krishna C. Poudel, Linda B. Mlunde, David P. Urassa, Junko Yasuoka, Masamine Jimba
Krishna C. Poudel
Background: Medical and nursing education lack adequate practical nutrition training to fit the clinical reality that health workers face in their practices. Such a deficit creates health workers with poor nutrition knowledge and child undernutrition management practices. In-service nutrition training can help to fill this gap. However, no systematic review has examined its collective effectiveness.We thus conducted this study to examine the effectiveness of in-service nutrition training on health workers’ nutrition knowledge, counseling skills, and child undernutrition management practices. Methods: We conducted a literature search on nutrition interventions from PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, ISI Web of Knowledge, and World Health Organization …