Beer With Probiotics and Prebiotics

Chan, Mei Zhi Alcine; Toh, Mingzhan; Liu, Shao-Quan

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-819662-5.00004-5

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“…11 Several studies from different parts of the world such as India, Nigeria, Poland, and the US were found to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of medical science students (i.e., students of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and pharmacy) regarding probiotics. 12 - 16 Three studies from Jordan, Iran, and Oman specifically addressed the Middle East. 9 , 11 , 17 The results of these studies revealed that medical students had low to moderate levels of knowledge and that students need further education programs on probiotics.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Probiotics Among Saudi Health Care Students—A Cross-Sectional Study From Saudi University in Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Al hossan,

Syed,

Babelghaith

et al. 2024

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Probiotics offer a variety of health benefits for the digestive system, atopic eczema, and immune system. Future healthcare providers should know more about probiotics to advise their patients and the general public appropriately. The purpose of the study was to evaluate health science students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) on the use of probiotics in various health conditions. A cross-sectional study was conducted among health college students using a self-administered online questionnaire. The study participants were selected using the convenience sample approach. statistical package for social science (SPSS) software was used to analyze the data. The Kruskal–Wallis test and Mann–Whitney test were used to assess the statistical differences between sociodemographic data in knowledge, attitude, and practice variables. Of the 517 respondents, 56.3.0% of health science students had moderate knowledge of probiotics. More than one-third had positive attitudes, and 53.4.2% had positive practices. There was a significant difference in knowledge ( P < .001), practice score ( P < .001), and attitude score ( P < .001) among different demographic data. Less than half of students said that their curricula did not include any information on probiotics. In addition, the majority of students agreed that probiotics were helpful for gastrointestinal health (87.3%), followed by immune health (73%), ulcerative colitis (61.9%), and irritable bowel (59.6%). The most information resources for probiotics were media (64%), and friends (60.7%). Health science students in Saudi had a fair level of knowledge of probiotics. Probiotics education in health science school curricula might increase students’ understanding of the topic and improve probiotic prescribing in the future.

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