Understanding how healthcare providers build consumer trust in the Australian food system : A qualitative study

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AIM: This study aimed to identify how dietitians and other healthcare providers work to build trust in food systems in the course of providing dietary education.

METHODS: Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 purposefully sampled dietitians (n = 5), general practitioners (n = 5), and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners (n = 5) within metropolitan South Australia. Interview data were then interpreted using an inductive thematic analysis approach, involving the construction of themes representing trust-enhancing roles around which beliefs about professional roles, the 'patient', and food and health were clustered.

RESULTS: Healthcare providers communicate beliefs regarding (dis)trust in food systems through: (i) responding to patient queries and concerns following a food incident or scare; (ii) helping patients to identify (un)trustworthy elements of food supply systems; and (iii) encouraging consumption of locally produced and minimally processed food. Importantly, the expression of these roles differed according to participant beliefs about food and health (medico-scientific versus alternative medicine) and their adoption of professional projects that sought to promote medico-scientific ways of thinking about health and diet or manage the failures of Western medicine.

CONCLUSION: The development and consolidation of trust-enhancing roles amongst healthcare providers likely requires disciplinary reflection on professional values and the processes by which practitioners apply these values to understanding food systems.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:81

Enthalten in:

Nutrition & dietetics: the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia - 81(2024), 2 vom: 23. Apr., Seite 180-189

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pillen, Heath [VerfasserIn]
Withall, Liz [VerfasserIn]
Tonkin, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Ward, Paul R [VerfasserIn]
Meyer, Samantha B [VerfasserIn]
Henderson, Julie [VerfasserIn]
McCullum, Dean [VerfasserIn]
Coveney, John [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, Annabelle M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Complementary and alternative medicine
Food system
Journal Article
Professional role
Qualitative research
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Trust

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Date Completed 26.04.2024

Date Revised 26.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/1747-0080.12809

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35560535X