Health care workers nutr training

[Maitree Suttajit]

Dear Agneta:

In response to your questions, I may respond them according to our 
experience in Thailand.


> Does anybody have information or contacts on the following issues: 

> 1.Studies of nutrition knowledge, attitudes or perceived nutrition training

> needs of health care workers.

        In our country , we have many going -on separate graduate
students' projects and studies for their thesis about nutrition knowledge
, attitude of nurses adn health care officers in the Public Health
Program. 


> 2. a) Innovative or exceptional structured programmes of nutrition training

> of health care workers.

      The structured programms are usually  designed as meetings, 
questionaire, training camp in a resort area, group organization, 
news bulletin ,  frequent and more activities on nutrition  like picniking, 
camping, special classes, diet-therapy clinic for counselling and 
religious activities by buddhis monks in temples.


>     b) Have these training programmes been evaluated and if so, what

> evaluation measures were used?

         They have been to somewhat extent evaluated  by other groups by 
observation, following their lifestyles, behaviour, action and vision 
before and after their nutrition  training. Encouragement and 
participation are certainly needed.


> 3. Research projects examining effective strategies for nutrition training

> of health care workers.

        I have no much idea about this projects but there are some 
research projects going on in  Thailand. If you have to kwow, someone can 
find out from the Thai Universities and the Ministry of Public Health.


> Please answer to myself <agneta.yngve at cnt.ki.se> and to Tim Gill

> <tpg at rri.sari.ac.uk>, we are trying to build a good group of people for

> collaboration on these topics.

   Interesting to know and participate. May we know in details about your 
group?. > 

 Than ks in advance! 

Maitree Suttajit, Ph. D.
Associate  Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry
Faculty of Medicine
Chiang  Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand., 50200
Fax  66-053-217-144