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Prevention of Weight Loss in Long Term Care Veterans

NCT00841412 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 222

Last updated 2015-04-27

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Summary

Background: Numerous studies have shown that many LTC residents receive inadequate staff assistance with eating, which places them at risk for under-nutrition, dehydration and weight loss. Moreover, improvements in feeding assistance care have been shown to improve residents' daily food and fluid consumption and weight loss outcomes.

Objectives: The purpose of this program evaluation project is to train indigenous LTC staff how to improve nutritional care within the constraints of existing staffing resources.

Methods: A multiple baseline design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in one federal and one state VA LTC facility. Research staff collected baseline measures related to nutritional care processes and resident outcomes. All LTC units in each of the two sites were divided into two groups for program implementation. The program was implemented with staff and residents on the units in the immediate intervention group; while, the delayed intervention group remained in usual care and continued to be monitored monthly for all care process and resident outcome measures.

Status: This project ended 10/1/13. Five published papers resulted from this study.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Immediate Intervention Group

Unit staff received weekly training and feedback for 12-weeks to improve daily nutritional care processes.

BEHAVIORAL

Delayed Intervention Group

Research staff monitored this group under usual care conditions, then these units crossed over into intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sandra F Simmons, BA MA PhD · Tennessee Valley Healthcare System Nashville Campus, Nashville, TN

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-02-28
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • United States

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