Intuitive Eating Practices and Attitudes of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists

Simon, Marlei; Horacek, Tanya

doi:10.1016/j.jand.2017.08.046

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“…Two surveys of U.S. dietitians’ attitudes towards IE found attitudes towards professional use of IE principles differed by personal level of IE endorsement. Simon found low versus high IE practice endorsement resulted in scores of 9.50 versus 11.37 for knowledge and 24.00 versus 26.53 for attitude respectively (both p < 0.01). A large study of 22, 542 USA‐based dietitians by Schaefer et al found a mostly positive attitude towards WN practice, with 37% of respondents indicating they ‘support’, and 36.7% indicating they ‘strongly support’ an IE approach.…”

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Australian dietitians’ beliefs and attitudes towards weight loss counselling and health at every size counselling for larger‐bodied clients

Willer

Hannan-Jones

Strodl

2019

Nutrition & Dietetics

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Aim Research suggests that dietitians now employ weight‐neutral (WN) approaches (Health at Every Size (HAES), Intuitive Eating and non‐diet) as well as more traditional weight‐centric (WC) approaches (weight loss counselling) to address adult weight concerns. This study aimed to compare the knowledge of and attitudes towards WN practice compared with WC practice in Australian dietitians who work with larger‐bodied clients as delineated by practice approach. Methods A cross‐sectional web‐based knowledge, attitudes and practices survey was conducted with Australian dietitians who counsel adults with a body mass index >25 kg/m2. Based on their responses, dietitians were categorised into WC (preferring weight loss counselling), WN (preferring HAES counselling) or mixed approach (MA). Between‐group comparisons were conducted using Pearson's chi‐squared tests for knowledge and practice and independent t‐tests for attitudes. Results Of the 317 respondents, 18.3% fulfilled the criteria for WN practitioners, 30.3% for WC practitioners and the remainder were classified as providing a MA. Weight‐neutral approaches were more positively regarded generally than WC approaches (84.5% vs 53.9%) as well as considered professionally responsible (86% vs 58.7%) and perceived as more helpful for clients (61.2% vs 35%). Knowledge of WN practice goals was poor with only 36.9% (n = 117) of the participants indicating correctly that this mode of treatment is incompatible with a weight loss goal. Conclusions Weight‐neutral practice was considered acceptable by Australian dietetics professionals who counsel larger‐bodied people regardless of their personal practice preference although many displayed inaccurate knowledge of WN approaches.

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confidence: 99%