Thesis (M.S.) in Food Science and Human Nutrition--University of Maine, 2002. / Includes vita. Bibliography: leaves 43-48.

This research is concerned with dietitians' experiences of education and practice, which together constitute dietitian identity. The author, herself a dietitian and dietetic educator, recruited twelve female dietitians to participate in individual interviews and collaborative workshops where they shared their ' experiences and reflections on the themes of the research. This dissertation is arranged in three panels to achieve multiple perspectives on the research findings. The first panel explores the potential of using reflexive autoethnography as a research method. The second panel enacts an autoethnographic tale emphasizing the complexities of dietetic education and practice. The third panel is an academic rendering of the research that posits a theory of dietitian performativity. Arranging the findings as a textual triptych protracts the complex interplay of the research themes. In particular, participants enter the profession sustained by promises of being able to make a difference in the lives of others with respect to nutritional health. Dietetic practice comes to be understood as performative through a series of uncontested, repetitive acts. In the mode of dietitian performativity, dietitians' lived realities are sometimes found to be discontinuous from promises of professionalism. Dietetic education, while not considered solely responsible for generating these promises, might operate to sustain or amplify their effects. Dietitians' passion for dietetics is open to question when performativities are found discrepant from promises. Profoundly melancholic expressions are associated with dietitians' inability to engage in liberatory practice, despite believing such practices were achievable. Melancholia instigated dietitians' desire to leave the profession. An imagined, embodied curriculum depicting what might result if dietetic students, educators, and practitioners acknowledge the relationality, emotionality, and promises of their profession is offered in response. The author calls for a renegotiation of what counts as knowledge in dietetic education through the asking of "Who am I?" In posing this question, the dietitian engages in a reflexive turn towards self-recognition such that 'doing' (performativity) emerges from 'being' (identity) and potentially nutrition discourse expands. Dietitian performativity initiated through critical social discourse begs the question of what it means to be human while endeavouring to embrace the joys, complexities, and contradictions that are dietetic education and practice. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 H44 / Master of Science

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Ontario’s Chronic Disease and Prevention Framework (CDPM) is a framework aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing costs. Currently, there is a paucity of data examining diabetes management (DM) in peritoneal dialysis (PD) programs. This study, carried out in 2010-11, describes dietitians’ perspectives regarding DM in PD programs in Ontario. Purposeful sampling of dietitians employed in PD programs (n=18) resulted in a response rate of 86.6%. A web-based survey collected data on demographic characteristics of PD clients, program models, and program-specific data regarding facilitators and barriers to provision of dialysis-specific diabetes education. Statistical analysis was completed and responses to open-ended questions examined using thematic open-coding. Findings suggest three major themes: “walking the CDPM talk”, dietitians as “unrecognized CDPM champions” and “the missing pieces to the CDPM puzzle”. Results suggest that while many dietitians have embraced CDPM, their capacity to fully integrate it into their practices is limited by organizational- and system-level barriers. / UOIT

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009. / Title from title screen (site viewed October 15, 2009). PDF text: vii, 163 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 7 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3369413. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-168).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009. / Title from title screen (site viewed January 12, 2010). PDF text: xi, 118 p. : ill. ; 668 K. UMI publication number: AAT 3360498. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1978 C34 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1979 C64 / Master of Science