Rimsha Shahid2025-11-142025-11-142025https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/10115The field of nutrition is gaining popularity, but its implication in human lives is still underrated due to certain limitations in the health care system. The patients seek dietary advice from the general physicians since they are the most trustworthy and frontline team of healthcare. Although limited data exists on the nutritional practices of physicians in the community. This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) among general physicians practicing in the hospitals and the health care units based in Lahore, Pakistan. This cross-sectional study was carried out among 320 physicians from various hospitals from August, 2024 till March, 2025. A stratified random sampling technique was used to identify the physician participants. The study included both genders male and female belong to the age group of 25 to 45 years. The descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and correlation tests were used to analyze the data using SPSS. According to the survey results, approximately 60% general physicians have moderate knowledge about basic nutrition including food-drug and interaction, macronutrient and micronutrient. Almost, 80% physicians show positive attitude towards the incorporation of nutritional counselling to the patients in health care settings and also acknowledged the importance of food and nutrition in disease management. Most of them agreed upon the fact that they require more knowledge to enhance their practice. While nearly, 70% physicians gave positive responses about educating diabetic patients, hypertensive patients, hyperuricemia patients to make mindful food choices in order to manage disease conditions but they still lack in providing customized medical nutrition therapy. The association between nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice shows no strong association. The study concluded that lack of time, physician’s lack of confidence, limited nutritional knowledge and unavailability of dietitians in hospitals are the counting factors in the negligence of providing nutritional counselling to the patients.enThesis