NCT05502445

The Nutritionist's Educational Intervention on the Protein Intake in Hospitalized Elderly People

Does the Nutritionist's Educational Intervention Influence Protein Intake in Hospitalized Elderly People?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 58 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The food intake is often compromised in the elderly, and during hospitalization, dietary restrictions may be imposed, making them more susceptible to the risk of malnutrition and sarcopenia. It is essential to make an early identification of the elderly with low intake and involve them in their self-care. The aims will be assess the influence of the nutritionist's educational action to increase protein intake in elderly patients, to analyze the knowledge on its importance in the prevention of sarcopenia and to identify the prevalence of nutritional risk. This is a field, prospective, correlational, comparative and randomized study. The elderly patients will be randomized into a Control Group and Intervention Group.

Detailed description

The Control Group will follow the flow of nutritional assessment and monitoring while the Intervention Group will receive daily visits to monitor food intake, leaflet and educational video on the importance of protein and its source foods. In both groups, a questionnaire on knowledge of protein sources and its importance will be applied, and we will calculated the 24-hour recall of a regular day and for three days of hospitalization. Patients will be assessment by Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form and SARC-F and will be the measurements of calf circumference and hand grip strength.

Conditions

• Old Age; Cachexia
• Dietary Habits
• Sarcopenia
• Protein Malnutrition
• Patient Participation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	educational intervention	In this group, the steps below are added:on the first day, the delivery of the leaflet on the importance of nutrition in the hospital environment will be added in addition to verbal guidance. On the second day, an educational institutional video with duration of two minutes, will be shown with the title "Food Intake and Oral Supplement in Nutritional Rehabilitation" via tablet or mobile phone. When the 24-hour recall will be collected, an assessment of food intake will be performed, mainly of foods that are sources of protein and, when they were less than 75%, strategies must be designed to increase the acceptance or indication of oral nutritional supplements.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-03-16
• Completion: 2022-03-16
• First posted: 2022-08-16
• Last updated: 2022-08-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil