摘要：Objectives:In the hospital setting,poor dietary intake interacts with disease and represents a major and modifiable cause of *** barriers to adequate dietary intake is an important strategy to guide the development of interventions to improve nutrition *** aim of this study reported in this paper was to explore patient,family and health care professionals'perceptions of barriers to and enablers of adequate nutrition care and dietary intake of medical ***:An exploratory qualitative study design incorporating group and individual interviews of patients(n=14),their family members(n=4),and health care professionals(n=18)was *** were recruited pragmatically,using a mix of convenience and purposive sampling.A theoretically informed,semi-structured interview schedule was based on observations of practice and the Theoretical Domains *** were audio-recorded,transcribed verbatim and analysed inductively using a general inductive ***:Three key themes emerged from analysing participant *** approaches to nutrition care reflected the diverse range of health care professionals responsible for nutrition care but who often worked in isolation from their *** work priorities for nurses reflected the challenge in prioritise nutrition care which was often constrained because of other care needs or work-related *** patients to eat highlighted that nurses were often the only health care professional who would provide assistance to patients at mealtimes and lack of available staff could negatively influence patients'nutrition ***:We have identified many complex and interrelated barriers which preclude adequate dietary intake in acute medical *** predominantly reflect issues inherent in the hospital culture and ***-faceted and sustainable interventions that support a facilitating nutrition culture and multidiscip