No-commercial Enteral Diet for Patients in Home Nutritional Therapy: Effects on Anthropometric and Biochemical Indices

Federal University of São Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Dietary therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02314130

1732/08

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective is to evaluate the effect of no-commercial enteral diet for patients in home nutritional therapy in anthropometric and biochemical indices comparing to patients using commercial enteral diets.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients in home nutritional therapy receiving no-commercial enteral diets

Exclusion criteria

• baseline diseases others than neurological

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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66 participants in 2 patient groups

Dietary therapy Standardized diet

Experimental group

Description:

The study was constituted by sixty-six patients, thirty-three in each group. Patients on not industrialized enteral diet (standardized diet group) entered at random in the study and were matched by gender, age, socioeconomic status and medical diagnosis to patients using commercial diet (commercial group). The evaluation consisted of anthropometric measures of weight, height, arm circumference, triceps skin fold and biochemical índices at baseline and at the end of the intervention.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Dietary therapy

Dietary therapy Commercial diet group

No Intervention group

Description:

The study was constituted by sixty-six patients, thirty-three in each group. Patients on not industrialized enteral diet (standardized diet group) entered at random in the study and were matched by gender, age, socioeconomic status and medical diagnosis to patients using commercial diet (commercial group). The evaluation consisted of anthropometric measures of weight, height, arm circumference, triceps skin fold and biochemical índices at baseline and at the end of the intervention.