The knowledge level and attitude of faculty members, physicians and paramedics about religious recommendations on nutrition

Aims: different ideas and viewpoints can be found on religious recommendations about appropriate nutrition. but from the viewpoint of successful people, awareness is beneficial in development and modification of the educational trend and realization of these attitudes. the aim of present study was to determine the awareness and attitude of faculty members, physicians and paramedics towards the religious recommendations on nutrition.methods: this stud cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on faculty members, physicians and paramedics of one of tehran hospitals. 178 subjects were selected by randomized sampling and were asked to say how much they were aware of islamic recommendations on nutrition and their attitude and awareness was classified in three “weak”, “moderate” and “good” levels. statistical analysis of data was performed by spss17 using independent t-test and anova. results: awareness levels of most studied cases was in moderate level as follows: weak (19.2%), moderate (64%) and good (78.8%). the attitude levels were as follows: weak (8.98%), moderate (78.53%) and good (72.47%). the means of awareness and attitude levels of interviewees were 5.408 out of 15 and 61.755 out of 100 respectively. conclusion: faculty members, physicians and paramedics presented positive and good attitude toward religious recommendations on nutrition; though, their knowledge was mostly at intermediate level. this positive attitude is able to pave the way for development of religious recommendations on nutrition, medicine and health.