Implementation of Nutritional Guidelines and Effects in Nursing Home Residents

Uppsala University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Implementation Strategies; Nutritional Outcome of Nursing Home Residents

Treatments: Other: A one year multifaceted implementation strategy; Other: A three hour lecture about the guidelines

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01861366

MuMs07

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to examine two implementation strategies (external facilitation and educational outreach visit) when introducing nutritional guidelines in the elderly care setting and to evaluate the results of the implementation by clinical outcome measures of the nursing home residents.

The hypothesis is that the residents affected by the external facilitation strategy will stay stable in the measured clinical outcomes, while the residents influenced by the educational outreach visit will deteriorate during the implementation process.

Enrollment: 101 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age of 65 or older
• nursing home resident
• persons who manage the examination methods (interviews and blood samples)

Exclusion criteria

• persons in terminal stage of life

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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101 participants in 2 patient groups

External facilitator

Experimental group

Description:

The external facilitation is a one year multifaceted intervention, including support, guidance, practice audit and feedback, training targeted to a team of practitioners involving the unit manager, the nurses and diet aides at the nursing home. The facilitator is a researcher and dietician.

Treatment:

Other: A one year multifaceted implementation strategy

Educational outreach visit

Active Comparator group

Description:

The outreach visit is a three hour lecture about the nutritional guidelines targeted to a team of practitioners including the unit manager, the nurses and diet aides at the nursing home. The trained person giving the lecture is a researcher and dietician.

Treatment:

Other: A three hour lecture about the guidelines