Validation of a Nutrition Screening Tool

Nestlé

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Other: Consumer Mini Nutritional Assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01473706

11.01.US.HCN

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the accuracy of a new consumer nutrition screening tool to an established and validated nutrition screening tool currently completed by healthcare practitioners.

Full description

The main objective of the study is to determine the accuracy of the self-administered consumer Mini Nutritional Assessment by comparing the level of agreement in the categorization of nutritional status between the self-administered Mini Nutritional Assessment and a validated nutrition screening tool in a population aged 65 and older.

Enrollment: 463 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consumer

• Age ≥ 65 years

• Employed part-time, unemployed, retired, full-time homemaker

• English speaking

  • Caregiver of Consumer

• Family, relative, friend, professional caregiver of an individual age ≥ 65 years

• Lives with individual aged ≥ 65 years OR Visits individual aged ≥ 65 years five or more days a week

  • Makes decisions or has strong influence on the individual aged ≥ 65 years' diet and medical needs.

• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Consumer

-- Full time employment

Trial design

463 participants in 2 patient groups

Consumers

Description:

Adults aged ≥ 65 years; Employed part-time, unemployed, retired, full-time or a homemaker; English speaking

Treatment:

Other: Consumer Mini Nutritional Assessment

Caregivers of Consumers

Description:

Family, relative, friend, professional caregiver of an individual age ≥ 65 years; Lives with individual aged ≥ 65 years OR Visits individual aged ≥ 65 years five or more days a week; Makes decisions or has strong influence on the individual aged ≥ 65 years' diet and medical needs; English speaking

Treatment:

Other: Consumer Mini Nutritional Assessment