Optimising Nutrition, Oral Health and Medication for Older Home Care Clients (NutOrMed)

University of Eastern Finland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutrition, Oral Health

Treatments: Other: Nutrition and oral health interventions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02214758

RECID84/2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of six month long nutritional and oral health intervention on nutritional status, oral health, functional performance and hospital admission/costs on older persons using home care services. Additionally, participants are interviewed at home regarding their drugs use and this information will be compared with medication information in electronic patient records.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• home care clients

Exclusion criteria

• under 75 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 4 patient groups

Dietary counseling

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Nutrition and oral health interventions

Oral health counseling

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Nutrition and oral health interventions

nutrition no counseling

No Intervention group

oral health no counseling

No Intervention group