Intervention of Diet Registration Method for Rehabilitation Patients

University of Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Digital Clinical Diet Registrations Advantages; Patients in Rehabilitation

Treatments: Other: Conventional dietary registration; Other: Digital dietary registration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04738682

AppHobro

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study aims to investigate whether dietary registration can be performed with greater precision using digital registration units (mobile devices), rather than conventional paper based dietary registers.

Study intervention is based in the M3 rehabilitation unit, as part of Hobro hospital. The intervention will proceed until 6 full-day dietary registrations have been collected per patient (40 patients total), 3 for each registration method. The estimated time requirement is 30 days.

Full description

Study aims to investigate whether dietary registration can be performed with greater precision using digital registration units (mobile devices), rather than conventional paper based dietary registers.

These mobile devices have been equipped with a dietary registration app, developed by the company Movesca ApS, specializing in digital healthcare solutions.

Nurses, and other relevant staff members at the M3 rehabilitation unit at Hobro hospital, will be testing this alternative registration method, as they engage in their day-to-day dietary registration for in-house patients. The data collection requires 6 full-day dietary registrations from each individual patient (40 patients in total). Of these 6 registrations, 3 will be gathered using mobile devices and 3 using conventional paper based registers.

The study primary endpoint is precision. The golden standard is dietary recall. The two methods will be assessed in accordance with their uniformity to the dietary recalls, which will be performed by the investigators following the meals.

As a preemptive measure, an internal retrospective audit was performed, with dietary registration as the objective. This audit was completed to retrieve baseline data on dietary registration, and determine whether the rehabilitation unit conforms to the regulations set by the region.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patient needs to be admitted to the rehabilitation unit at Hobro Hospital
• The patient need to give consent to be included.
• The patient needs to be admitted to the unit for at least 6 days
• The patient has to have 3 days of diet registration with both methods to be included in the data
• The patient need to be of legal age to give consent

Exclusion criteria

• The patient mustn be afflicted by any psychological illness, and must be of sound mind, so a normal conversation doesn't pose any problems.
• The patient mustn be sick with Covid-19, or other infectious diseases
• The patient mustn be terminal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1 (Digital -> Conventional)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients allocated to Group 1 (Digital -\> Conventional) will undergo three days of digital dietary registration, using mobile devices, followed by three days of conventional dietary registration, using pen and paper.

Treatment:

Other: Digital dietary registration

Other: Conventional dietary registration

Group 2 - (Conventional -> Digital)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients allocated to Group 2 - (Conventional -\> Digital) will undergo the exact opposite sequence, commencing with three days of conventional dietary registration, using pen and paper, followed by three days of digital dietary registration, using mobile devices.

Treatment:

Other: Digital dietary registration

Other: Conventional dietary registration