Preventing Malnutrition Among Older Adults

Nord University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Other: Education video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05860140

366924

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims to explore whether access to a digital education video can improve the nutritional situation of home-living older adults after being discharged from the hospital.

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Orthopedic and surgical in bedded patient patients in a selected regional hospital in Norway.
• Over 65 years old. Have their home address in one of nine selected municipalities in Nordland county.
• home living and due to return home after discharge directly from the hospital or after a short-term training stay at a training centre before returning home.
• Could read and understand Norwegian.
• Have consent competence.
• Have a Body mass index less than 24.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients patients only receiving liquid diet such as tube feeding
• terminal-ill patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

will get access to a six-minute educational video five days after being discharged from the hospital. The video is focusing on protein and energy meals for older adults.

Treatment:

Other: Education video

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group, not given any intervention