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Assessment of Handgrip Strength in Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

NCT02950779 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2016-11-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disease, which causes inflammation of the gut. People with this disease are often poorly nourished. Problems caused by poor nutrition such as poor wound healing can be reduced if it is recognised and treated early.

When people with IBD attend outpatients clinic with their IBD specialist they are weighed and their BMI calculated to indicate if they are poorly nourished. Weight and BMI may not always provide a good assessment of how well nourished a person is because it does not describe the amount of muscle in the body in proportion to fat. A person with a low or decreasing amount of muscle but a normal or high BMI is at risk of nutritional problems. Measuring the amount of muscle someone with IBD has in routine practice poses a challenge to clinicians due to time constraints. One-way of measuring the amount of muscle a person has is to measure their muscle strength. This can be measured by recording the strength of a person's handgrip. Handgrip strength can be measured using a hand-held device called a dynamometer.

This study aims to test whether it is possible to measure the handgrip strength of people with IBD attending outpatient's clinic. It also aims to test how the measure obtained compares with other methods of assessing whether someone is malnourished and their health. People with a diagnosis of IBD who are aged 18 or older and who are scheduled to attend IBD outpatients clinic in one hospital will be asked to take part in the study. Their handgrip strength will be measured each time they attend clinic over a nine-month period in addition to other information about their health and nutritional state. This study forms part of a Masters in Research being undertaken with The University of Southampton.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Handgrip Strength Measurement

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Southampton

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fraser Cummings, Dr · University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2017-08-31
Completion
2017-10-31

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