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Community Oral Nutrition Support Trial

NCT00515125 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 104

Last updated 2015-09-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the best form of dietary intervention to undernourished elderly individuals in care homes.

The research aims to test the null hypothesis that there is no difference between oral nutritional supplements and dietary advice as the first line treatment for malnutrition.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Dietary Advice

Dietary Advice sheet

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Oral Nutritional Supplements (Fortisip)

These products are classified as non-medicinal, borderline substances, foods for special medical purposes. A range of commercially available liquid oral nutritional supplements (Fortisip) will be offered daily for a 12 week period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Southampton

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marinos Elia, Professor · University of Southampton

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Primary Completion
2010-03-31
Completion
2010-03-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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