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P S Easton

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PubMed1986

Integrating diet therapy and dietary counseling: an alternative education technique.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a change in education methods on learning among students enrolled in a coordinated undergraduate program (CUP). An experimental process applying the principles of diet therapy and counseling in a situation involving volunteer clients was initiated, and the effects were measured. A pretest-post-test design was used for this investigation. Two psychometric instruments, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Affective Sensitivity Scale, were used to measure changes in attitudes, values, and aptitude. The curriculum of the treatment group (19 juniors in the CUP) was reorganized so that diet therapy and dietary counseling would be taught during the same semester. The laboratory sessions were combined the last 6 weeks of the semester to provide an opportunity for students to counsel clients recruited from the university campus. The comparison group (11 seniors in the CUP) had enrolled in diet therapy the first semester of the junior year and dietetic counseling the second semester; those students were tested during their senior year. The research indicated that the students in the treatment group learned effectively. They significantly increased their awareness, listening, and understanding during the treatment period. The post-test of the treatment group indicated that they had increased perception and more acute affective sensitivity in comparison with the control group.

Adult↗
PubMed1984

Decision-making styles of dietitians.

Four decision-making styles (technician, planner, teacher, artist) were distinguished with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) results for 61 dietitians and 55 dietetic students. The "technician" style (impersonal, matter-of-fact analysis expressed in technical skills) was preferred to other styles by the greatest percentage of subjects studied. Subgroups of clinical dietitians, those 40 years old or older, and dietetic internship graduates preferred the "technical" style that is related to academic achievement in applied and physical sciences. Dietitians in administration, consulting, education, and public health indicated a preference for the "artistic" style (an insightful approach to possibilities expressed in an ability to communicate well with others). CUP graduates indicated the most diversity in style preferences. The "planner" style identified with researchers was preferred to the "artistic" style by students. Available data from groups of dietitians studied by other investigators supported these findings and indicated similarities among dietitians, school administrators, and medical technicians. Comparison between students in this and other samples indicated more differences than similarities, which may be due to differences in programs. Since all styles are useful within the profession, it is suggested that the identification and adaptation of style be included in education programs for dietetic students and practitioners.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Body image perception of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders.

Interviews with 75 adolescents and children in a South Florida psychiatric hospital showed that patients expressed significantly less dissatisfaction with both height and weight than a group of 565 adolescents from the same geographical area. The dissatisfaction expressed by patients was more like that of a sub-group of the students with comparable ethnic characteristics. Patients reported that significant others concurred with their own judgements of body size. One half of patients who were judged by the researcher to be of normal weight wanted to be thinner. The recommendation is made that patients need help with body image perception and management because of the high percentage of dissatisfaction (85 per cent) even though hospitalization for psychiatric disorders does not appear to increase body-image problems.

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