Ting Wang, Huizhen Liu, Xiaoqin Zhou, Changxi Wang
The effect of retirement on physical and mental health in China: a nonparametric fuzzy regression discontinuity study
BMC public health
background healthy diet important component preventive medicine changing landscape medicine physicians encountering challenges educating patients healthy diet finding innovative ways educate patients imperative study investigated effectiveness innovative educational intervention based united states department agriculturerecommended myplate diet methods based assessed need dietary education patients exposed educational video received handout myplate diet educational video created culturally relevant patientinformed edits handout taken wwwchoosemyplategov patients received intervention compared exposed intervention data collected primary care clinic underserved population fall 2018 analyzed spring 2019 patientcompleted surveys physician reporting patient interactions data analyzed using descriptive statistics tests chisquared models repeated measures analysis variance results among 320 patients 169 patients exposed educational intervention intervention patients better knowledge myplate diet p0009 felt would easier change diet p003 motivated conversations diet physician p004 compared exposed patients also enjoyed video overall conclusion study shows using multiple modalities including patientcentered video handouts educate patients diet enjoyable patients effective teaching motivating change encouraging communication patients physicians