Nutritional Intervention in Geriatric Patients

University Hospital, Gentofte, Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutritional intervention programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03131856

Geriatric-Project-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate the effect of a multi-disciplinary nutritional intervention program in geriatric nutritional at risk patients. The study is carried out as randomized controlled trial. The intervention consists of an individual dietary plan conducted by a clinical dietician before discharge in combination with three follow-up visits after discharge (1, 4 and 8 weeks).

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 65 or above
• BMI <20.5 and/or weight loss within the last 3 months and/or a reduced dietary intake in the previous week and/or severely ill

Exclusion criteria

• Terminal illness
• Active cancer diagnosis
• Permanently living in a nursing home
• Not willing or able to give an informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Nutritional intervention programme

Experimental group

Description:

An individual dietary plan conducted by a clinical dietician before discharge in combination with three follow-up visits after discharge (1, 4 and 8 weeks).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutritional intervention programme

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care which means no individual dietary plan and no nutrition follow-up visits after discharge.