Effectiveness of Dementia Nutrition Education

Celal Bayar University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutrition Deficiency Due to Insufficient Food; Nutrition Assessment; Nutrition; Dementia

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06739642

CBU-NURS-FUA-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nutritional problems can and do manifest themselves at various stages and with varying degrees of severity. Patients with dementia are at significant risk for weight loss and malnutrition due to the numerous issues that arise during the disease process. Caregivers of patients with dementia face significant challenges in providing nutritional care for their patients due to difficulties with nutrition for physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reasons.

The following methods were used: This study employed a randomized controlled trial with a pretest-posttest design. The study was conducted with 89 patients and caregivers (45 in the intervention group and 44 in the control group). We collected data from the intervention and control groups before and after the intervention using the Descriptive Information Form, Edinburgh Nutrition Evaluation in Dementia (EdFED) Scale, Mini Nutritional Assessment, Dysphagia Assessment Scale in Multiple Sclerosis, and Sarcopenia Screening Test (SARC-F). The intervention group received a standardized educational program for three months. We evaluated the data using percentages, arithmetic means, standard deviations, medians, and interquartile ranges. We analyzed the data using chi-square tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, and intention-to-treat analyses.

Enrollment: 89 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for caregivers

• being a primary caregiver,
• aged> 18,
• volunteering to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria for caregivers -wanting to quit working, not attending training

Inclusion criteria for patients

• According to DSM-V criteria, they must have a nutritional disorder, metabolic disorder, or dementia that is not due to systematic diseases
• be fed orally
• have the caregiver/guardian of the patient with dementia voluntarily agree to participate in the research with him/herself and the patient

Exclusion criteria for patients

-Having a health condition that affects nutrition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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89 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

caregivers in the intervention group (n=45) received an individualized educational program intervention

Treatment:

Other: Education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Caregivers in the control group (n=44) continued to receive routine care.