Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01627496
Nutritional Status and Quality of Life in Older Adults
Nutritional Status and Quality of Life in Older Hospitalised Adults
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 40 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Surrey · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 75 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
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
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2011-01-01
- Completion
- 2011-12-01
- First posted
- 2012-06-25
- Last updated
- 2012-07-04
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01627496. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.