Organisational Culture and Nutritional Care

NCT03963778 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 1718/IRASGY/1
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 24
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The study explores the impact of organisational culture on multidisciplinary teams in the provision of nutritional care for older hospitalised acute in-patients by collaborating with patients and/or their relatives and healthcare practitioners to influence change.

Conditions

Nutrition

Keywords

Malnourishment; Nutritional Deficiency; Undernutrition

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Focus Group sessions / Action research team meetings

  The action research team will have focus group/meetings involving health professionals willing to participate as co-researchers to collectively draw on their experiences to collaborate and implement interventions to improve nutritional care delivery for patients following the iterative AR cycles; planning, taking action, observing and evaluating interventions. The group meetings will be spread across 12 months. Outcome measures are obtained from interventions implemented as agreed by the team and as informed by preliminary data (such as the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool ('MUST') audit).

  12 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Interview/focus group

  8 months

• Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool Hospital Audit.

  18 months

Interventions

Improving nutritional care BEHAVIORAL

The interventions will be co-designed with the action research team

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: all
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Recently discharged patients from an acute healthcare setting.

You may qualify if:

• Recently discharged patients aged 65 or over
• Recently discharged patients at the time of data collection
• Who at the time of admission received oral nutrition and hydration

You may not qualify if:

• Patients aged under 65
• Current in-patients
• Patients who have had no oral nutrition. e.g patients who had Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) feeds whilst admitted
• Patients who are feeling too unwell to participate
• Patients lacking the mental capacity to give verbal or written consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Bournemouth University: lead
• Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Bournemouth University

Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 3LH, United Kingdom

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Malnutrition

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Study Officials

• Janet Scammell, PhD

  Associate Professor

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: OTHER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 10, 2019
• First Posted: May 28, 2019
• Study Start: September 17, 2018
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2021
• Study Completion: December 1, 2021
• Last Updated: January 5, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-01

Locations

GB (1)