{"title":"A practicum in clinical nutrition as the internship component of an integrated masters/internship program.","authors":"E Walters","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In September 1990, Chedoke McMaster Hospitals (CMH) admitted two students to the Practicum in Clinical Nutrition. This program was developed at CMH in affiliation with the graduate programs in nutrition offered at McMaster University and the University of Guelph. This is the first program in Canada to integrate a graduate nutrition degree at the Master's level with a clinical nutrition training program. The purpose of this paper is to describe the need, goals, educational philosophy, developmental process and anticipated benefits of this practicum.</p>","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"52 2","pages":"107-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20984413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managers' perceptions of customers' satisfactions with their hospital cafeteria services.","authors":"C M Johnston, E M Upton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is important that hospital cafeterias deliver products that create customer satisfaction so that financial objectives are met. An exploratory descriptive survey of 12 selected hospital cafeterias used a self-administered questionnaire to determine how satisfied customers were with services provided. It also asked cafeteria managers to give their perceptions of their customers' relative satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the service. Principal components analysis, followed by varimax rotation, identified four underlying constructs of the 15 pre-selected foodservice characteristics used to measure relative satisfaction. A multiple regression model, controlling for country, hospital size and customer demographics, in which the dependent variable was overall rating, found that the independent variables, the underlying rating constructs--food and service--made a much greater impact on overall rating than environment and accessibility. Most cafeteria managers' predictions about their customers' satisfaction were within two standard deviations of their customers' mean scores of satisfaction. While the managers' close association with their service may have accounted for this, it does not necessarily follow that they have the power to implement policy and product improvements.</p>","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"52 1","pages":"11-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20984443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Mendelson, D Dollard, P Hall, S Y Zarrabi, E Desjardin
{"title":"The impact of the Healthiest Babies Possible Program on maternal diet and pregnancy outcome in underweight and overweight clients.","authors":"R Mendelson, D Dollard, P Hall, S Y Zarrabi, E Desjardin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Healthiest Babies Possible Program (HBP) is a prenatal intervention program for the City of Toronto and is designed to reduce the incidence of low birth weight babies. This study was undertaken to assess the impact of the HBP on dietary change and birth outcome for underweight and overweight expectant mothers. Dietary change was measured by the use of food scores applied to 24-hour dietary recalls throughout the pregnancy. Three recalls collected during the early stage of the program were selected to represent early interventions; three of the results collected during the latter stage of the program represent the late stage of intervention. Birth outcome was determined by weight gain and infant birth weight. For both groups, food scores improved throughout the early intervention period and the improvements were sustained through the remainder of the program. During pregnancy the underweight women gained more weight than the overweight women but delivered infants with lower birth weights.</p>","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"52 4","pages":"229-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20988701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A conceptual framework for dietetics.","authors":"M Beaudry, S Lilley, L Aucoin-Larade","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The model for the practice of dietetics recently adopted by the CDA board of directors clarifies how the different facets of dietetics are interrelated and part of a common definition of dietetics. It is our hope that this discussion will help us to move beyond the question of identity we often feel in our profession and will stimulate debate and the development and testing of alternate models; this should further clarify the essence of dietetic practice and enable us to continue to improve our unique and common contribution towards the provision of quality nutritional care to the population.</p>","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"52 2","pages":"77-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20984414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of graduate dietetic internship appointments in Canada.","authors":"G M Beazley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A statistical model of dietetic intern selection was developed from a profile of selection criteria that was obtained in a 1988 survey of Canadian graduate dietetic internship directors. The model was composed of four clusters of variables that resulted from the most frequently used selection criteria: academic performance, work experience, communication skills, and extracurricular activities. Data from a convenience sample of 39 dietetic intern applicants were analyzed, using principal components analysis and discriminant analysis, to test the model's power to predict success in obtaining an internship appointment. In descending order, the criteria with the greatest predictive powers were: academic performance; extracurricular activities; and supervisory, teaching, or instructing types of work experience. The model accounted for 41% of the differences between those who were successful and those who were not successful in obtaining internship appointments in 1989 and correctly classified 30 of 39 subjects. These results provide baseline data on the predictive power of some criteria used for selecting dietetic interns. These findings suggest the need for a replication study with a randomized national sample to crossvalidate the results obtained in this exploratory research.</p>","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"52 2","pages":"89-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20984415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey of physicians' uses/opinions regarding nutrition education resources.","authors":"A Kelly, M R Joffres","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since physicians are one of the public's main sources of nutrition information, a study was conducted to investigate physicians' sources of nutrition knowledge, patient education resources, and opinions about potential nutrition services. A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of family physicians. The response rate was 53% (n = 255). Fifty-three per cent of respondents ranked their personal knowledge and training as their most frequent source of nutrition information. The most widely reported sources of patient education resources were Health and Welfare Canada and industry. Physicians ranked resources from Health and Welfare Canada as highest for quality characteristics, and industry information as lowest. Pamphlets were ranked as the most/very useful patient service (70%), and physician reimbursement as the most useful physician service (59%). One-quarter of physicians asked for patient information on heart disease. The results of this study suggest physician reimbursement for nutrition education needs to be addressed by health insurance plans if physicians are to be expected to provide nutrition intervention. Further nutrition training for physicians should be conducted through medical education, continuing education and medical journals.</p>","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"51 3","pages":"409-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Importance of a nutrition monitoring and surveillance system for research and practice in Canada.","authors":"D M Woolcott","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"51 4","pages":"469-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutrition monitoring in the United States.","authors":"C. Woteki","doi":"10.1201/9781420008890-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420008890-28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"14 1","pages":"466-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65960227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutrition education research in health promotion.","authors":"K Dean","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"51 4","pages":"481-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutrition monitoring in the United States.","authors":"C E Woteki","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79677,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association","volume":"51 4","pages":"466-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}