Educational Intervention Improved Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) and Adherence of Patients with Celiac Disease to Gluten-Free Diet

Nour Amin Elsahoryi; Eyad Altamimi; Hadil Shafee Subih; Fwziah Jammal Hammad; Jayne V Woodside

doi:10.1155/2020/8850594

Educational Intervention Improved Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) and Adherence of Patients with Celiac Disease to Gluten-Free Diet

Int J Food Sci. 2020 Sep 17:2020:8850594. doi: 10.1155/2020/8850594. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Nour Amin Elsahoryi¹, Eyad Altamimi², Hadil Shafee Subih³, Fwziah Jammal Hammad³, Jayne V Woodside⁴

Affiliations

¹ Nutrition Department, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Petra, P.O. Box 961343, Amman 11196, Jordan.
² Pediatric Department-Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 21210, Jordan.
³ Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 21210, Jordan.
⁴ Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK BT12 6BJ.

Abstract

Background: Raising the knowledge level though education for a celiac disease patient's parents could improve the parent's adherence and practice and consequently recover the patient's adherence and symptoms and increase the patient's compliance.

Aim: The present study was aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of parents who have children with celiac disease aged from 2 to 15 years old and the change in self-reported patient's adherence pre-/posteducational intervention.

Method: This intervention study was designed as a quasiexperiment with evaluation pre-/post intervention analyses. Two educational sessions were carried for the parents of CD patients. A reliable and valid questionnaire was used to assess all independent variables pre-/post intervention. The parents were asked to complete the questionnaire pre and post the education sessions. The time between the sessions was two weeks.

Results: 100 parents were recruited, and 40 parents participated and completed the study. Baseline parent's knowledge was significantly associated with the source of information (p value = 0.02), while the patient's adherence was associated with the onset of disease (p value = 0.04). There were significant differences in the parent's KAP and patient's adherence between pre- and posteducational intervention (p value was ≤0.001, for all variables).

Conclusion: Based on the results, this study suggested that the educational intervention increased the parent's KAP and improved the patient's adherence to the gluten-free diet significantly, which may lead to improvement in the celiac disease patients' health outcomes.