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CompletedNCT02800291M3Updated Feb 5, 2019

Making the Most of Mealtimes Determinants of Food Intake

An observational study in Malnutrition, sponsored by University of Waterloo. Completed. Open to participants aged 65 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-02-05.

Sponsored by University of Waterloo · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Other
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
640
Ages
65 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

M3 is a multi-site cross sectional study. Data were collected form 640 residents in 32 homes in Canada. The primary purpose of this study was to identify food intake in residents and compare this to recommendations, as well as determine influential determinants of food intake.

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This cross-sectional study has collected in-depth data at the resident, dining room, staff, and home level, focused on determinants of food intake. Dietary intake is based on three non-consecutive days of weighed and estimated food intake. Oral health and dyshphagia risk are assessed. Person directed care practices, mealtime environments and home level variables of food cost, production and delivery are ascertained.

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Conditions studied

  • Malnutrition

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Keywords

  • food intake
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In context

Malnutrition

1,587 studies on the registry are indexed under Malnutrition; 237 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 640 is above the median of 203 across 388 observational studies indexed under Malnutrition.

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Lead sponsor

University of Waterloo is the lead sponsor of 90 studies on the registry; 8 are open to participants now.

Of its 12 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 9 (75%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
65 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

Participants were residents in long term care. Eligible residents were medically stable, living in the selected units from the participating homes. They had to be reside in the home for more than 1 month and not be on tube feeding or be considered at the end of life.

Inclusion criteria

  • medically stable living in selected units, residing in home for more than one month consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • considered end of life by staff; tube feeding
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Study design

Observational model
Other
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
640 participants (actual)
Patient registry
No
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Malnutrition

    Subjective Global Assessment

    Time frame: 1 month

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Publications

  • Vucea V, Keller HH, Morrison JM, Duizer LM, Duncan AM, Steele CM. Prevalence and Characteristics Associated with Modified Texture Food Use in Long Term Care: An Analysis of Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3) Project. Can J Diet Pract Res. 2019 Sep 1;80(3):104-110. doi: 10.3148/cjdpr-2018-045. Epub 2019 Feb 7. PubMed 30724101 ↗
  • Iuglio S, Keller H, Chaudhury H, Slaughter SE, Lengyel C, Morrison J, Boscart V, Carrier N. Construct validity of the Dining Environment Audit Protocol: a secondary data analysis of the Making Most of Mealtimes (M3) study. BMC Geriatr. 2018 Jan 22;18(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s12877-018-0708-4. PubMed 29357821 ↗
  • Vucea V, Keller HH, Morrison JM, Duncan AM, Duizer LM, Carrier N, Lengyel CO, Slaughter SE. Nutritional quality of regular and pureed menus in Canadian long term care homes: an analysis of the Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3) project. BMC Nutr. 2017 Oct 23;3:80. doi: 10.1186/s40795-017-0198-3. eCollection 2017. PubMed 32153857 ↗
  • Keller HH, Carrier N, Slaughter S, Lengyel C, Steele CM, Duizer L, Brown KS, Chaudhury H, Yoon MN, Duncan AM, Boscart VM, Heckman G, Villalon L. Making the Most of Mealtimes (M3): protocol of a multi-centre cross-sectional study of food intake and its determinants in older adults living in long term care homes. BMC Geriatr. 2017 Jan 13;17(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s12877-016-0401-4. PubMed 28086754 ↗

Study documents

  • Study protocol · Jan 1, 2017

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 5, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02800291
Lead sponsor
University of Waterloo
Collaborators
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), University of Alberta, University of Manitoba, Universite de Moncton
Responsible party
Heather Keller (Research Chair, Nutrition & Aging, University of Waterloo) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 15, 2016
Start date
Jan 2015
Primary completion
Dec 2015
Completion
Dec 2015
Last update
Feb 5, 2019

Study contacts

Heather Keller, PhD
principal investigator · University of Waterloo

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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