title: Applying research in nutrition education planning: a dietary intervention for Bangladeshi chronic kidney disease patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Effective nutrition health interventions are theory-based, as well as being drawn from practice and research, aiming to successfully accomplish dietary behavioural changes. However, the integration of theory, research and practice to develop community dietary educational programmes is a challenge that many interventionists feel ill equipped to achieve.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the present study, a community-based education programme was designed for Bangladeshi patients with chronic kidney disease and hypertension. The goal of this programme was to reduce dietary salt intake in this population group, with a view to reducing their blood pressure and slowing kidney disease progression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The present study sets out the first four steps of a six-step model for creating a behaviour change programme.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These four steps were concerned with the translation of theory and evidence into intervention objectives, and illustrate how a practical, community-based intervention was developed from behavioural theory, relevant research, knowledge of practice and the target patient group. Steps 5 and 6, which are concerned with implementation and evaluation, will be reported separately.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. i.ashurst@rbht.nhs.uk
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: de Brito-Ashurst
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.forename: T A B
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dobbie
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Yaqoob
mesh_terms: D001459:Bangladesh; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004039:Diet, Sodium-Restricted; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy*; D052756:Nutritional Sciences; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy*; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical
chemical_list: D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary