NCT05389098

Finger Food, Pleasure at Your Fingertips: Randomized Pilot Study, Open-label and Parallel Groups

L'Alimentation Manger-mains, le Plaisir au Bout Des Doigts : Etude Pilote randomisée, en Ouvert et en Groupes parallèles

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Tours · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 75 Years – 120 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Food is available in easy-to-grip bites that allow residents in care settings to use their fingers for food. This new way of eating can help limit weight loss, increase food intake, gain independence and improve the enjoyment of eating for residents.

Detailed description

According to the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), undernutrition affects between 15 and 38% of elderly people living in institutions and between 50 and 60% of hospitalized elderly people. In addition, a significant decrease in satisfaction with meals was observed with increasing level of dependence. The objective of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of implementing the finger food in care settings that could have a positive impact on the nutritional status of elderly people living in EHPAD.

Conditions

• Undernutrition
• Elderly Person

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Hand-Eating	eat-hands type food mode
OTHER	Control	Usual eating mode

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-03
• Primary completion: 2027-01-31
• Completion: 2027-01-31
• First posted: 2022-05-24
• Last updated: 2025-11-24

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: France