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Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice of Iranian households and primary health care staff: NUTRIKAP survey
The aim of this study is to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of Iranian households and health staff on
nutrition at province level. The sampling method in NUTRIKAP survey for households in each province is singlestage
cluster sampling and the size of clusters is equal. The sampling method for health staff in each province is
stratified random sampling. Samples are selected from physicians, health experts, health technicians, nutritionists
and health assistants (Behvarz). Overall, 14136 people in 57 clusters in each province and 480 health staff over the
country participate in this survey. The necessary data will be gathered by the structured questionnaire and the
interview with the eligible person in each household. Data gathering from health staff will be carried out by selfadministered
questionnaire. The results of this study can help the bureau of community nutrition to provide the
proper interventions to improve nutritional health of households