Educating dental students about diet-related behavior change: Does experiential learning work?

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 64-74

  Taylor Dr , George W ^a   Stumpos, Madelyn L ^b   Kerschbaum, Wendy ^b   Inglehart, Marita Rohr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Dental education; Dental students; Diet; Experiential learning; Health education; Motivational interviewing; Nutritional management; Transtheoretical model

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; DENTAL STUDENTS; DIET; DIET THERAPY; EDUCATION; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENTS; DIET; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT; TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL;

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NUTRITION THERAPY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; STUDENTS, DENTAL;

EID: 84891845591     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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