Acceptability Study of Nutritional Supplements in Hospitalized Elderly Patients (CNO Evaluation)

University Hospital Center (CHU) Dijon Bourgogne

Status

Completed

Conditions

Malnutrition

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: Fortimel Cream

Dietary Supplement: Fortimel Compact Protein

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02810470

VAN WYMELBEKE NUTRICIA 2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

Malnutrition is a major health problem with serious consequences for the quality of life of elderly people: it increases the number of hospitalizations and lengths of stay, worsens functional dependency and increases morbidity and mortality rates There are numerous recommendations and tools to detect or to manage malnutrition and the prescription of Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) can be a solution. As the elderly suffer from food monotony, as well as age-related changes, which may or may not be associated with the presence of disease, it is necessary to ensure full ingestion of the prescribed supplements to optimize the benefits provided by these products. To achieve this it is necessary to know the chemosensory characteristics of foods enjoyed by hospitalized elderly people who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. The investigators make the hypothesis that by further optimizing taste and energy content of foods, consumption by the elderly and the health benefits would be improved.

Enrollment

107 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Person who have given their written informed consent
Person aged more than 65 years
Person cognitively able to participate in tests and to answer questionnaires (Mini Mental Statement Estimation score (MMSE) equal to or greater than 21)
Person with an Mini Nutritional Status score (MNA) lower than 23.5/30 for risk of malnutrition or malnourished
Person without known unstable cardiac disease
Person without high blood pressure

Exclusion criteria

Person who are not covered by national health insurance
Person suffering from severe illness during the test
Person with a life expectancy lower than 6 months or with a cancer
Every person with proven anosmia (total loss of olfaction) from birth or due to physical trauma (head trauma) or disease (acute rhinitis)
Person with allergy (soya milk) or severe aversion to one of the foods that will be used during the study
Person with swallowing disorders
Person with a prescribed strict food diet
Person with an instable diabetes