title: [Knowledges and beliefs related to nutrition of obese and overweight patients subjects: a study in Southern Italy].
abstract: 303 obese and overweight south Italian patients (240 women and 63 men), volunteers to participate in a patient education programme delivered by the university hospital of Foggia, have fullfiled a 50 items true/false test exploring the knowledges and the beliefs on obesity, nutrition, physical activities. The majority of the subjects has both low socio economical status and education level. Women have better performed than men (p<0.005) and obese patients, better than overweight subjects (p<0.005). The more frequent mistakes have concerned items on nutrition, meanwhile a better performance has been observed with the items on beliefs.
authors.affiliation: Centro di Pedagogia delle Scienze della Salute, Facoltà di Medicina, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Italia. tamaracirillo@libero.it
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cirillo
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Albano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Crozet
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: d'Ivernois
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D009765:Obesity; D050177:Overweight; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires