Effect of education workshop on interns’ knowledge of childhood nutrition and growth monitoring in Qazvin Medical School

Abstract

This interventional study was carried out to determine the effect of education workshop on interns’ knowledge of Qazvin Medical School over childhood nutrition and growth monitoring in 2003-2004. All medical trainees (191) doing their health course on childhood nutrition and growth monitoring were selected. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed by Macnemar test. Based on results obtained in the present study, while 6.8% of interns were classified as having good knowledge before taking part in education workshop it reached to 63.9% after intervention (P