Developing a Nutrition Support Assessment Tool

NCT ID: NCT06450860

Last Updated: 2025-04-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-05-21
• Study Completion Date: 2025-04-30

Brief Summary

The research team developed the Nutrition Support Assessment Tool (NSAT) that incorporates key patient life information (e.g., ability to cook, access to refrigerator/stove, medical conditions and nutritional status) to facilitate individualized nutrition referral. The overall goal of this study is to refine and test the NSAT as a systematic approach to provide individualized nutrition needs screening and referral for patients being discharged from the acute care setting at Jefferson Health. The investigators hypothesize the NSAT will be successful in identifying individualized nutrition referrals that are deemed acceptable and appropriate by enrolled participants.

Conditions

Nutrition Assessment; Food Insecurity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Nutrition Intervention

Participants receive an individualized food provision and/or supplemental food support referral based on responses to the NSAT.

Group Type: OTHER

Nutrition Interventions

Intervention Type: OTHER

Individualized food provision and/or supplemental referral based on participant's unique needs/responses to assessment (NSAT). Food provision interventions include medically tailored meals, home delivered prepared meals, grocery boxes, grocery delivery services, food pantries, and soup kitchens/meal sites. Supplemental interventions include SNAP benefit enrollment support, nutrition education, and cooking education.

Interventions

Nutrition Interventions

Individualized food provision and/or supplemental referral based on participant's unique needs/responses to assessment (NSAT). Food provision interventions include medically tailored meals, home delivered prepared meals, grocery boxes, grocery delivery services, food pantries, and soup kitchens/meal sites. Supplemental interventions include SNAP benefit enrollment support, nutrition education, and cooking education.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Currently admitted to Thomas Jefferson University or Methodist Hospital or Emergency Department
• Has working phone number and is willing to participate in follow-up data collection
• Eats by mouth
• Lives in MANNA's geographic service area
• Patient reports food insecurity or malnutrition using existing screening tools

Exclusion Criteria

• Unwilling to provide consent
• Unsheltered/unhoused
• Lives in or is being discharged to facility that provides daily meals (e.g., long term care, incarcerated)
• On hospice or has life expectancy of less than 4 months, per clinician
• Not consentable
• Deaf or has other major communication barriers that compromises ability to participate in study activities

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

The MANNA Institute

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Thomas Jefferson University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

iRISID-2022-1304

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id