Promotion of healthy nutrition in clinical practice: A cross-sectional survey of practices and barriers among physiotherapists in southeast Nigeria

Background: Healthy diet counselling is an important concept in health promotion. Physiotherapists are well positioned to initiate or support healthy nutrition in addition to physical activity counselling, in routine patient consultation. Objective: To determine the practices about and barriers to d...

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Main Authors: Ukachukwu Okoroafor Abaraogu, BMR(PT), MSc, PhD Candidate, Mary O. Ogaga, BMR(PT), Eric Odidika, BMR(PT), Jose Frantz, PT PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2016-12-01
Series:Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101370251530021X