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Nutrition Intervention Planning Guide

Nutrition intervention involves planning and implementing actions to change nutrition-related behaviors and improve health. Planning involves prioritizing interventions, collaborating on goals, writing a customized nutrition prescription, and selecting effective strategies. Implementation involves carrying out the plan through education, counseling, coordinating care, and population-based actions to resolve nutrition problems. Nutrition intervention is important to provide advice, education, and tailored food/meals to improve clients' and communities' nutrition diagnoses and problems.

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Nutrition Intervention Planning Guide

Nutrition intervention involves planning and implementing actions to change nutrition-related behaviors and improve health. Planning involves prioritizing interventions, collaborating on goals, writing a customized nutrition prescription, and selecting effective strategies. Implementation involves carrying out the plan through education, counseling, coordinating care, and population-based actions to resolve nutrition problems. Nutrition intervention is important to provide advice, education, and tailored food/meals to improve clients' and communities' nutrition diagnoses and problems.

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Importance of nutrition

intervention planning
Nutrition Intervention
• A nutrition intervention is a purposely
planned action designed with the intent of
changing a nutrition-related behavior, risk
factor, environmental condition, or aspect of
health status to resolve or improve the
identified nutrition diagnosis or nutrition
problem.
Nutrition intervention phases
• Nutrition intervention is accomplished in two
distinct and interrelated steps:
• Planning
• Implementing
Planning

• Planning the nutrition intervention involves:


• Prioritizing nutrition interventions based on
urgency, impact, and available resources.
• Collaborating with the client to identify goals
of the intervention for each diagnosis.
• Writing a nutrition prescription based:
• On a client’s customized recommended
dietary intake of energy and/or selected food
or nutrients based on current reference
standards and dietary guidelines.
• A client’s health condition and nutrition
diagnosis.
• Selecting specific nutrition intervention
strategies that are focused on the etiology of
the problem and that are known to be
effective based on best current knowledge
and evidence.
• Defining the time and frequency of care,
including intensity, duration, and follow-up.
Implementation
• Collaborating with the client to carry out the
plan of care.
• Communicating the nutrition care plan.
• Modifying the plan of care as needed.
• Following up and verifying that the plan is
being implemented.
• Revising strategies based on changes in
condition or response to intervention.
Nutrition Intervention is organized in
five domains (categories):
1: Food and/or Nutrient Delivery

Customized approach
for food/nutrient
provision.
2: Nutrition Education
• A formal process to instruct or train a
client/group in a skill.
• To impart knowledge to help clients/group
voluntarily manage or modify food, nutrition,
and physical activity choices and behavior to
maintain or improve health.
3: Nutrition Counseling
• A supportive process.
• It characterized by a collaborative counselor-
client relationship, to establish food, nutrition
and physical activity priorities.
• Goals, and action plans that acknowledge and
foster responsibility for self-care to treat an
existing condition and promote health.
4:Coordination of Nutrition Care
• Consultation with, referral to, or coordination
of nutrition care with other health care
providers, institutions, or agencies that can
assist in treating or managing nutrition-related
problems.
5: Population Based Nutrition Action
• Interventions designed to improve the
nutritional well-being of a population.
Why is nutrition intervention
important?
• To resolve or improve the nutrition diagnosis or
nutrition problem by:
• Provision of advice.
• Provision of education.
• Delivery of the food component of a specific diet
or meal plan tailored to the
patient/client/community needs.
References
• Edelstein, S. 2011. Nutrition in Public Health:
A Handbook for Developing Programs and
Services, 3rd ed. Jones & Bartlett Learning,
Sudbury, M.A, USA.
• Nnakwe, N.E. 2009. Community Nutrition:
Planning Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention. Jones and Bartlett Learning
International, London, UK.

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