Nutritional Intervention in Geriatric Patients

NCT ID: NCT03131856

Last Updated: 2017-04-27

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

150 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-10-15

Study Completion Date

2015-12-31

Brief Summary

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This study aims to investigate the effect of a multi-disciplinary nutritional intervention program in geriatric nutritional at risk patients. The study is carried out as randomized controlled trial. The intervention consists of an individual dietary plan conducted by a clinical dietician before discharge in combination with three follow-up visits after discharge (1, 4 and 8 weeks).

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Malnutrition

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Eligible patients were randomized to either the intervention group or control group.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Nutritional intervention programme

An individual dietary plan conducted by a clinical dietician before discharge in combination with three follow-up visits after discharge (1, 4 and 8 weeks).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Nutritional intervention programme

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The intervention consisted of an individual dietary plan conducted by a clinical dietician before discharge in combination with three follow-up visits after discharge (1, 4 and 8 weeks) conducted by a district nurse.

Usual care

Usual care which means no individual dietary plan and no nutrition follow-up visits after discharge.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Nutritional intervention programme

The intervention consisted of an individual dietary plan conducted by a clinical dietician before discharge in combination with three follow-up visits after discharge (1, 4 and 8 weeks) conducted by a district nurse.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age 65 or above
* BMI \<20.5 and/or weight loss within the last 3 months and/or a reduced dietary intake in the previous week and/or severely ill

Exclusion Criteria

* Terminal illness
* Active cancer diagnosis
* Permanently living in a nursing home
* Not willing or able to give an informed consent.
Minimum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Gentofte, Copenhagen

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Rikke Terp

Principal Investigater

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

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Geriatric-Project-2012

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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