Turkish Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia (EdFed) Scale

Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Reliability and Validity; Feeding Difficulties; Dementia

Treatments: Other: Observation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06889103

Edfed scale

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to evaluate the psychometric properties, including interobserver agreement, of the Turkish version of the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia (EdFed) scale, which was developed to assess eating difficulties in patients with dementia.

Full description

Eating difficulties are common in dementia patients and can lead to malnutrition. Early detection and intervention of these difficulties is of great importance to minimise the negative effects. Therefore, a reliable and valid tool for assessing nutritional difficulties in dementia patients is needed.

Enrollment: 55 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Those over the age of 65,
• Those diagnosed with dementia,
• Patients who are able to weigh themselves (no lower extremity loss)

Exclusion criteria

• (CDR<2)

Trial design

55 participants in 1 patient group

Observed

Description:

observation during eating

Treatment:

Other: Observation