Nutritional care and nursing students' attidudes towards it

What is it about?

This is a cross sectional study in which we assessed the nursing students' attitudes towards nutritional care for older people. Malnutrition is a major issue among older people. Knowing students attitudes may help to understand which are the best strategies to improve nutritional education during the bachelor degree.

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Why is it important?

This study revealed a progressive improvement of the attitudes during the three-year course, underling the importance of nutritional contents provided; understanding the most critical aspects about nutritional care can be helpful in understanding in which areas university education should be improved, in order to train nurses able to assess and face with each patients' assistance need.