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Nutritional Status and Quality of Life in Older Adults

NCT01627496 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2012-07-04

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Summary

The aim of this study is to determine the nutritional status, and factors affecting malnutrition in older people staying in hospitals.

Objectives:

* To recruit a sample of older people in hospital
* To collect information on nutritional status, satisfaction with food-related life and experience with access to food in hospital.
* To assess the staffing attitudes to nutritional care of the older adult
* To undertake an audit of therapeutic ('special') diets served in hospitals, with respect to their nutritional adequacy and wastage
* To investigate predictors and correlates of malnutrition within the hospital setting and compare these relationships with those previously identified in care homes and the community.
* To make recommendations for practice to improve the nutritional status of hospitalised older adults.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Surrey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Noraida Omar, BSc · University of Surrey

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2011-01-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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