NCT02214758

Optimising Nutrition, Oral Health and Medication for Older Home Care Clients (NutOrMed)

Optimising Nutrition, Oral Health and Medication for Older Home Care Clients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Eastern Finland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of six month long nutritional and oral health intervention on nutritional status, oral health, functional performance and hospital admission/costs on older persons using home care services. Additionally, participants are interviewed at home regarding their drugs use and this information will be compared with medication information in electronic patient records.

Conditions

• Nutrition, Oral Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nutrition and oral health interventions	On the basis of a blood test, Mini Nutritional Assessment, and nutritional anamnesis, the nutritionist developed a plan for individualised nutritional care and discussed with the participant and her/his nurse or family members. If the participants seemed unable to increase the energy and/or protein of their diet, daily complementary dietary drinks were recommended to them. After the dental hygienist interview and oral health examination, the participants in need were targeted for oral health intervention. The intervention included individualised instructions on either dental hygiene, denture hygiene, cleaning of the oral mucosa or for dry mouth. The participants were re-examined six months after the baseline interviews to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions. Both the intervention and control groups had the same examinations as with the exception of the nutritional and oral health intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2014-06-01
• First posted: 2014-08-12
• Last updated: 2014-08-12