An observational study in Undernutrition and Malnutrition, sponsored by Oslo Metropolitan University. Completed. Open to participants aged 70 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-01-13.
Sponsored by Oslo Metropolitan University · Observational
The purpose of this study is to estimate the prevalence of nutritional risk and examine nutritional care practices in the hospitalized elderly at one large university hospital in Norway.
A cross-sectional study was designed and carried out at a university hospital in Norway. The study was developed by a collegium at a nursing bachelor education program in a multidisciplinary collaboration with representatives from the university hospital and other experts. Data on nutritional risk and nutritional care practices of elderly patients were collected by 173 second year nursing students at the university college in question who were undergoing their acute and clinical care practice studies on 20 wards at the university hospital. Nine nutritional screening days were conducted in the academic years 2011/2012 and 2012/2013. On the screening days the students filled in the questionnaire for each patient, including questions about age, gender, length of hospital stay, normal weight in recent months, weight, height, BMI, nutritional risk and nutritional care practices. The students measured weight and height whenever possible, and screened the patients for nutritional risk. Data were collected by using a stratified sampling technique along with adequate power calculations to improve the representativeness of the sample. The researchers received anonymously completed questionnaires and screening forms from the students and never met the patients.
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Patients were recruited from a large University hospital in Norway. The university hospital covers about 10% of the Norwegian population, providing healthcare services for approximately half a million people living in urban and rural municipalities. The patient population is thus heterogenic with respect to ethnicity and socioeconomic factors. All somatic wards having nursing students in acute care clinical studies in autumn 2011 were included in the study. The study sample comprised 14 of 16 medical and surgical somatic wards. Additionally, one rehabilitation ward, one specialized short time unit, one emergency medicine ward, and one cardio-monitoring ward were included.
Eligible patients were selected by the nursing students in cooperation with the ward nursing staff.
Exclusion Criteria:
Nutritional risk
Patients was screened for nutritional risk on 9 screening days conducted in the academic years of 2011/2012 and 2012/2103. The Nutritional Risk Screening Tool 2002 (NRS2002) was employed to identify nutritional risk in the patients.
Time frame: 9 screening days were conducted in 2011-2013
Nutritional care practices
Questions regarding the nutritional care practices concerned weight measurements on admission and then weekly, conduction of nutritional risk screening, coding of undernutrition diagnosis (E43, E44, or E46) in line with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), and initiation of nutritional measures.
Time frame: 9 nutritional screening days were conducted in the period 2011-2013
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