Lesson plan / METHODS IN ASSESSMENT OF COMM. NUTR. STATUS

Lesson Information

Course Credit 2.0
Course ECTS Credit 3.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
Course Coordinator Instructor CEYDA DURMAZ
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course It is aimed to learn community nutrition, nutritional epidemiology and assessment methods of nutritional status and develop knowledge and skills for using these methods in the assessment of nutritional status of patients and healthy people in the community.
Course Content Community nutrition, community health dietitian and nutritional epidemiology, Assessment of nutritional status, Nutritional anthropometry, Clinical signs, Biochemical and biophysical methods, Dietary intake surveys, Health statistics; age specific mortality and morbidity rates, Nutrition screening tools

Weekly Course Subjects

1Community nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, nutritional assessment methods
2Anthropometry-1 (adult)
3Anthropometry-2 (adult)
4Practical: Anthropometric measurements
5Practical: Evaluation of anthropometric measurements
6Anthropometry-3 (child)
7Midterm Exam
8Practical: Evaluation of anthropometric measurements (child) (WHO Anthro programme)
9Clinical signs Biochemical and biophysical methods Assessment of energy expenditure
10Dietary intake surveys- I
11Dietary intake surveys-II BEBİS programme, SPSS programme
12Nutritional screening tools SGA, MNA, MUST etc.
13-Evaluation of 24 h recall and food frequency questionnaire
14Health statistics

Resources

1. Pekcan, G. Beslenme Durumunun Saptanması, Diyet El Kitabı, (Ed. A. Baysal ve ark.) 67-142, Hatiboğlu Yayınevi, Ankara, 2011.
2. Margetts BM, Nelson M (1997). Design Concepts in Nutritional Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2nd Ed.
3. Gibson RS (2005). Principles of Nutritional Assessment. Oxford University Press, Newyork, 2nd Ed.
4. Willett W (1998). Nutritional Epidemiology. Oxford University Press. NewYork, 2nd Ed.
5. Jelliffe DB, Jelliffe EFP. Community Nutritional Assessment. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989.
6. Lee RD, Nieman DC (2007). Nutritional Assessment. McGrawHill, Boston, 4th Ed