Effect of education workshop on interns’ knowledge of childhood nutrition and growth monitoring in Qazvin Medical School

This interventional study was carried out to determine the effect of education workshop on interns’ knowledge of Qazvin Medical School over childhood nutrition and growth monitoring in 2003-2004. All medical trainees (191) doing their health course on childhood nutrition and growth monitoring were selected. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed by Macnemar test. Based on results obtained in the present study, while 6.8% of interns were classified as having good knowledge before taking part in education workshop it reached to 63.9% after intervention (P<0.05).Furthermore, the two other groups of participants initially categorized as having intermediate (30.9%) and poor (62.3%) knowledge before the intervention decreased to 28.2% and 7.9%, respectively (P<0.05). Results from this study emphasize on the necessity of holding workshop for medical students to promote their knowledge and experience associated with nutrition and growth monitoring chart.