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Basic Care Revisited: Early Nutrition Intervention for Outpatients

NCT02440165 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2015-05-12

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Summary

Early nursing nutrition intervention for outpatients in need of surgery

* Objective - To investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of screening and an early nursing intervention on malnutrition in outpatients in need for surgery.
* Design - Multi-centre cluster-randomised controlled early trial design (n=150 patients)
* Intervention - Malnutrition screening (during outpatient clinic visit) and (in case of patients being ´at risk for malnutrition´ or being ´malnourished´), a nutrition care plan (including nutritional drinks and energy and protein rich meals) tailored to individual patient requirements
* Comparison - Usual care (no nutritional care plan)

Conditions

  • Malnutrition
  • Dietary Modification

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nursing nutrition intervention

The early nursing nutrition intervention will include malnutrition screening (during outpatient clinic visit) with the MUST. If patients are ´at risk for malnutrition´ or ´malnourished´, a standardized nutrition care plan will be discussed with the patient by the nurse. This nutrition care plan will include: * Information and advice; * Examples of energy and protein rich meals; * patients will be asked to register their nutritional intake for two days at home; * after a week, the nurse will call the patients to answer questions and to give advice. This nutrition care plan will be tailored to the individual patient requirements. Furthermore, if patients are 'malnourished', a visit to the dietician is always suggested, because this is usual care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sint Maartenskliniek

    collaborator OTHER

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ria Nijhuis- van der Sanden, PhD · Radboud University Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2016-06-30

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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