NCT05536830

Assessment of DeMentia Nutrition Intervention Needs Among Care Recipients and carEgivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Nutrition is critical for disease prevention and brain health. Malnutrition and weight loss often affect persons with Alzheimer's dementia (PWD), worsening overall health and dementia. Informal caregivers (usually family members) perform many nutrition-related tasks as part of daily care such as food preparation and feeding. Limited research, however, suggests informal caregivers experience high rates of caregiver burden, malnutrition and low health literacy. More research is needed to uncover these and other factors that may contribute to malnutrition for both PWDs and their caregivers. Nutrition literacy, or ability to navigate nutrition information to select healthy food, may be an important caregiving factor that protects both individuals from experiencing nutritional decline. Although the NIH has increased funding to support caregiver research, caregiver interventions that include nutrition are lacking. The purpose of this study is to inform the design of a future nutrition intervention study.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nutrition Status	Participants will be examined by a registered dietitian to assess nutrition status.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-25
• Primary completion: 2023-12-08
• Completion: 2024-12-08
• First posted: 2022-09-13
• Last updated: 2025-04-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States