ABSTRACT
Sustainable food system (SFS) competence is a new and recognized knowledge area for nutrition and dietetics professionals (NDP). This research seeks to describe the SFS knowledge seeking behavior of NDP. Secondary data analysis of 231 anonymous self-assessments collected between September 2020 to December 2021 indicate a high proportion (41%) of self-assessed “beginners” in this topic at a mixture of career stages. There was a preference for learning about topics that already have significant public attention globally. More advanced practitioners sought more applied information. These results are informative for updating education and professional development tools for NDP.
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Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge Haley Jenkins and Chaiti Seth for their invaluable background work on the ideation, design and set up of the data collection tools.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Author Contributions
LC contributed to design, data collection, analysis and led the manuscript writing process; RP led data analysis and contributed to writing; EC contributed to design, and contributed to writing.
Research and Publication Ethics
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The Research Ethics Board at Acadia University confirmed that no prior ethics approval was required based on the study design.