Post-hospitalisation Nutritional Support and Gait Speed in COPD

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

Status and phase: Terminated; Phase 3

Conditions: Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Pulmonary Emphysema; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Bronchitis, Chronic

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Oral Nutritional Supplements; Dietary Supplement: Food fortification

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02261350

2013LF004H

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the feasibility of delivering different community nutritional interventions to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients at moderate or severe risk of malnutrition following a hospitalisation for an acute exacerbation of COPD.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ability to consent
• Patients at moderate or severe risk of malnutrition
• Adults over the age of 40
• Hospitalised with an AECOPD

Exclusion criteria

• Receiving long term parental or enteral nutrition
• Inability to swallow or difficulty liquids
• Lactose intolerance, galactosaemia, cow's milk protein allergy or intolerance
• Co-existing active cancer, progressive neurological condition or active GI disorder.
• Receiving palliative care with expectation of death within 3 months
• Cognitive dysfunction or unable to consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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22 participants in 3 patient groups

Food Fortification

Experimental group

Description:

Food Fortification

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Food fortification

Oral Nutritional Supplements

Experimental group

Description:

Oral Nutritional Supplements - Fortisip Compact

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Oral Nutritional Supplements

Usual Care

No Intervention group