Identifying barriers and facilitators to adopting healthier dietary choices in clinical care: a cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Adopting healthier diets can drastically improve societal health. Our environment plays a crucial role in daily dietary choices and hospitals in particular can stimulate patients to adopt healthier eating habits. Unfortunately, no robust clinically applicable cuing tools exist to help guide in-hospital dietary interventions. The purpose of this study was to identify patient-related barriers and facilitators to adopting healthier dietary choices.

Methods and results

This cross-sectional observational study was conducted on the cardiology ward of a university medical center between June 2020 and January 2021. Of the 594 patients asked and the 312 completed surveys on healthy eating intentions, 285 responses were considered for analysis. Notably, the majorit

SUBMITTER: de Frel DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10767758 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature