Feasibility of Nutritional Telemonitoring in Elderly Home Care Patients

Wageningen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging; Undernutrition

Treatments: Other: Nutritional telemonitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03211845

NL50423.081.14

Details and patient eligibility

About

An optimal nutritional status is essential for healthy ageing. Telemonitoring might contribute to maintaining or improving nutritional status in elderly people.The objectives of this pilot study are to test the feasibility, acceptability and implementation fidelity of telemonitoring of nutritional parameters in community-dwelling older adults; to test the study procedures for effect evaluation; and to determine the likelihood of achieving desired impact on the primary and secondary outcomes.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Having a care referral for at least one of the following types of care:

• Domestic care
• Personal care
• Nursing care
• Individual or group support

Exclusion criteria

• Severe cognitive impairment (Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) < 20)
• Receiving terminal care
• Expected length of receiving home care < three months
• Not having a television at home
• Clients with a visual impairment (not able to watch the television screen)
• Clients with a physical impairment in such a way, that they are not able to use the telemonitoring system
• Clients with nursing home care

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Nutritional telemonitoring

Experimental group

Description:

Nutritional telemonitoring including self-measurements of body weight, nutritional status, appetite, diet quality and physical activity. Additionally, participants receive guidance on nutrition and physical activity by means of customized and general television messages and/or if necessary personal guidance by a nurse.

Treatment:

Other: Nutritional telemonitoring