Nutritional Risk and Nutritional Care Practices in the Hospitalized Elderly

NCT01977950 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 1-2719007
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 508
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to estimate the prevalence of nutritional risk and examine nutritional care practices in the hospitalized elderly at one large university hospital in Norway.

Conditions

Undernutrition; Malnutrition

Keywords

Undernutrition, Nutritional risk, NRS2002, nutritional care practices, hospital, elderly patients, nursing students

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Nutritional risk

  Patients was screened for nutritional risk on 9 screening days conducted in the academic years of 2011/2012 and 2012/2103. The Nutritional Risk Screening Tool 2002 (NRS2002) was employed to identify nutritional risk in the patients.

  9 screening days were conducted in 2011-2013

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Nutritional care practices

  9 nutritional screening days were conducted in the period 2011-2013

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 70 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients were recruited from a large University hospital in Norway. The university hospital covers about 10% of the Norwegian population, providing healthcare services for approximately half a million people living in urban and rural municipalities. The patient population is thus heterogenic with respect to ethnicity and socioeconomic factors. All somatic wards having nursing students in acute care clinical studies in autumn 2011 were included in the study. The study sample comprised 14 of 16 medical and surgical somatic wards. Additionally, one rehabilitation ward, one specialized short time unit, one emergency medicine ward, and one cardio-monitoring ward were included. Eligible patients were selected by the nursing students in cooperation with the ward nursing staff.

You may qualify if:

• All elderly (≥70 yrs) patients admitted on the included wards at 08.00 am on the screening days were asked to participate.

You may not qualify if:

• Terminal patients (assumed short-lived, \<1 month), patients diagnosed with dementia and patients whom the ward staff found unfit to participate were excluded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Oslo Metropolitan University: lead
• University Hospital, Akershus: collaborator

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Malnutrition

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Study Officials

• Kari Almendingen, Professor

  Oslo Metropolitan University

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 31, 2013
• First Posted: November 7, 2013
• Study Start: September 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2013
• Study Completion: May 1, 2013
• Last Updated: January 13, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-01