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Effects of Nutrition Counselling on Old Age People's Nutritional Status and Quality of Life

NCT04746664 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 210

Last updated 2025-09-18

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Summary

The world population is ageing rapidly as a result of low fertility and mortality rates and increasing life expectancies. Old age people (age 60 years and above) shared 962 million or 13% of the global population in 2017 and expected to be two billion by 2050. As individuals grow old, their dietary pattern changes and the risk of malnutrition estimated between 11.8% to 27% in the community elderly people. Ageing and nutrition are by far the number-one driver of the global burden of disease: every country is facing. Early assessment and management of malnutrition among old age people can minimize the negative consequences, extending to better health status and quality of life. Nutrition counselling is one of the first line of nutritional therapy. However, malnutrition in old age people remains under-detected, under-treated and under resourced, and is often overlooked in low-income countries like Ethiopia. Furthermore, nutritional interventions targeted to old age people are lacking in the country. Therefore, this study is intended to estimate the effects of nutrition counselling on old age people's nutritional status and quality of life in Bahir Dar City, Northwestern Ethiopia

Conditions

  • Malnutrition
  • Quality of Life

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutritional counselling

Individual-based nutrition counselling guided with the health belief model (HBM) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) will be implemented.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bahir Dar University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ahmed Muhye Seid · Bahir Dar University

  • Netsanet Fentahun Babbel · Bahir Dar University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-28
Primary Completion
2022-02-14
Completion
2022-05-26

Countries

  • Ethiopia

Study Locations

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