Rebecca K. Steele-Dadzie (Mphil)

SHORT BIOS/CV

Rebecca Steele-Dadzie has worked with the Department as a Lecturer since 2009. Her teaching experience is in the areas of food safety, communication skills, health promotion and community nutrition.  Also a Registered Dietitian, her research interest is in the area of dietary and lifestyle habits which predispose various populations to non-communicable diseases. She is involved in studies investigating the effectiveness of dietary and lifestyle interventions on dietary behaviour and its effect on non-communicable disease outcomes, primarily cardiovascular and renal diseases. She is an advocate for traditional healthy diets such as the Mediterranean diet to correct the negative effects of the nutrition transition.

ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE

Academic Students’ Adviser (undergraduate), Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Ghana.

RESEARCH INTEREST Her research interest is in the nutrition transition and its effect on chronic disease state (particularly cardiovascular and renal diseases) and the dietary and lifestyle interventions that can restore good health.

RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED (WITHIN PAST 5 YEARS)

1. An assessment of food labels of selected local and imported pre-packaged food products on the Ghanaian market.

2. Lunch preferences of Corporate Workers compared to Artisans in The Greater-Accra Region.

3. Snacking habits of market women in selected markets in Accra.

4. Snacking habits of corporate workers in the Greater Accra Region

5. Maternal knowledge of latching and burping in breastfeeding

6. Determinants of malnutrition in children at the Princess Marie Louis Hospital

7. The association between dietary protein intake and blood pressure of hypertensive patients in selected health facilities in the Greater Accra Region.

8. Body composition of chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis compared to those not on dialysis.
9. Dietary vitamin intake of patients with dyslipidemia in selected health facilities in the Greater Accra region
10. Dietary protein intake of CKD patients at the Renal Unit of The Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
11. Fruits and vegetables intake of chronic kidney disease patients and its association with serum potassium level.
12. An estimation of the total calorie intake of school-age children during school hours in the ledzokuku constituency in Accra.
13.  An assessment of the major dietary sources of protein in end-stage renal disease patients and its association with serum phosphate.

ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

• The effectiveness of dietary and lifestyle interventions in persons with major lifestyle related chronic diseases at the korle-bu teaching hospital
•  The use of artificial sweeteners among Diabetes patients at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
Swallowing difficulties among stroke patients at the Korle-bu Polyclinic and its effect on their nutritional status
Food allergies and intolerance among asthma patients at the Korle-bu Polyclinic.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1. Intiful, F., Osei, C., Steele-Dadzie, R., Nyarko, R., & Asante, M. (2017). Views of first-time expectant mothers on breastfeeding: a study in three health facilities in Accra, Ghana. Advances in Public Health, 2017, 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/489402.

2. Steele-Dadzie, R. K., Dzivenu, P., Asante, M., Hayford, F., Intiful, F. D., Amoako Mensah, A., & Boateng, L. (2015). An assessment of food labels of some selected prepackaged foods on the Ghanaian Market.  International Journal of Current Research, 7:8, 19030-19034.

3.  Intiful, F. D., Ankomah, AB.,  Asante, M.,  Amoako-Mensah, A.,  Steele-Dadzie, R. K., Boateng, L., Hayford, F., & Dzivenu, P. (2015). Quality of life of overweight and obese patients. Asian Journal of Medical Research, 7(1).

4.  Intiful, F. D., Arthur E., Amoako-Mensah, A., Steele-Dadzie, R. K., & Boateng, L. (2013).The effect of breakfast consumption on BMI and calorie intakes of office workers in Accra. Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences, 34(1).

5.  Intiful, F., Ogyiri, L., Asante, M., Amoako-Mensah, A., Steele-Dadzie, R. K., & Boateng, L. (2013). Nutritional status of boarding and non-boarding children in selected schools in Accra Metropolis. Journal of Biology, Agriculture and healthcare, 3(7): 156-162.

6. Steele-Dadzie, R. K., Owusu, W. B.,& Amoah, A. G. B. (2009). Determinants of type 2 diabetes among adults in Accra. Ghana Journal of Allied Health Sciences, 3(1), 44-59.