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Trial reportThe journal of nutrition, health & aging2017

Effect on Body Weight, Quality of Life and Appetite Following Individualized, Nutritional Counselling to Home-Living Elderly after Rehabilitation - An Open Randomized Trial.

J Andersson, E Hulander, E Rothenberg, P Iversen

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Trial report in The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT01632072 phase2completednot on this map

The Undernourished Patient: Prevention and Treatment

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of OsloRan2012 to 2015Enrolled100ConditionsWeight LossArmsNutritional support
NCT05304429 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Application of a Nutritional Counseling Program on the Frailty of Older Adults in the Mexican Population

TypeinterventionalSponsorInstituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de MontereyRan2022 to 2022Enrolled80ConditionsFrailty SyndromeArmsnutrition education, nutritional counseling
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

J AnderssonPO Iversen, Department of Nutrition, P.O. Box 1046 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway. Phone: + 47 22 85 13 91; fax: + 47 22 85 13 41; e-mail: p.o.iversen@medisin.uio.no.
E Hulander
E Rothenberg
P Iversen
EAB Engineering (Norway) · NOKristianstad University · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe examined if individually-adapted nutritional counselling could prevent > 5% weight loss among elderly patients 3 months after discharge from a rehabilitation institution. In addition we assessed quality of life (QoL) and appetite.

designAn open, randomized trial.

settingGodthaab Health and Rehabilitation Institution in Bærum, Norway.

participantsPatients identified as being undernourished or at risk of disease-related malnutrition using the Nutritional Risk Screening tool NRS-2002.

interventionShortly before discharge, patients in the intervention group received an individually-tailored nutrition plan. During the subsequent 3 months these patients were contacted 3 times via telephone calls and they received one visit at their homes, for nutrition counselling. Focus on this counselling was on optimizing meal environment, improving appetite, increasing food intake, advice on food preparation, and motivation and support. MEASUREMENTS: In addition to weight, QoL and appetite were assessed using the EQ-5D questionnaire and a modified version of the Disease-Related Appetite Questionnaire, respectively.

resultsAmong 115 considered eligible for the study, 100 were enrolled (72 women and 28 men), with a mean age of 75 years and a mean body mass index of 20 kg/m2. Two in the intervention group (n = 52) and 5 in the control group (n = 48) lost > 5% of their body weight, giving an odds ratio of 0.34 (95% CI: 0.064 - 1.86; p = 0.22). We did not detect any significant differences in the QoL- or appetite scores between the two study groups after three months.

conclusionAn individually-adapted nutritional counselling did not improve body mass among elderly patients 3 months after discharge from a rehabilitation institution. Neither quality of life nor appetite measures were improved. Possibly, nutritional counselling should be accompanied with nutritional supplementation to be effective in this vulnerable group of elderly. The trial is registered in Clinical Trials (ID: NCT01632072).

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AppetiteBody WeightQuality of LifeAgedBody Mass IndexCounselingEndpoint DeterminationFemaleHomes for the AgedHumansMaleMalnutritionNorwayNursing HomesPatient DischargeSurveys and QuestionnairesAppetitedisease-related malnutritionnutritional counsellingquality of liferehabilitation

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