New Zealand Medical Students Have Positive Attitudes and Moderate Confidence in Providing Nutrition Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Table 1

Description of each section of the questionnaire.

Section	Description of questions
Attitudes towards incorporating nutrition care into practice^a	33 questions exploring the perceived importance of nutrition care, implementation of nutrition care, doctor-patient relationship in nutrition, and efficacy of doctors in providing nutrition care.
Self-perceived skills in providing nutrition care^b	30 questions exploring confidence in skills relevant to nutrition care.
Nutrition education	Two questions exploring perceived quantity and quality of nutrition education received during medical training.

Adapted from McGaghie et al. (2001) [22].
^bAdapted from Mihalynuk et al. (2003) [23].