BACKGROUND Many patients do not eat and drink sufficiently during hospitalisation. The clinical consequences of this under nutrition include lassitude, an increased risk of complications and prolonged convalescence. The aim of the study was 1) to introduce intervention targeting nutritional care for medical inpatients, 2) to investigate the effect of this intervention, and 3) to investigate the...

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of nutritional supplementation on dietary intake and on pressure ulcer development in critically ill older patients. The multi-center trial involved 19 wards stratified according to specialty and recruitment for critically ill older patients; 9 wards were randomly selected for nutritional intervention (nutritional intervention group), consistin...

BACKGROUND Geriatric patients are at high risk of re-admission after discharge. Pre-existing nutritional risk amongst these patients is of primary concern, with former nutritional intervention studies being largely ineffective. None of these studies has included individual dietary counselling by a registered dietician or has considered competing medical conditions in the participants. A former ...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about how to support nutritional self-care in the vulnerable elderly living in their own homes is an important area for health care professionals. The aim of this case study was to evaluate the effects of nutritional intervention by comparing perceived health, sense of coherence, self-care ability, and nutritional risk in two older home-dwelling individuals before, during, ...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to study the effect of individualised meals on nutritional status among older people living in municipal residential homes and to compare the results with a control group. An additional aim was to estimate direct health care costs for both groups. SETTING Six different municipal residential homes in the south-east of Sweden. PARTICIPANTS Older people living in three re...

BACKGROUND Weight loss is a common problem in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). It is a predictive factor of mortality and it decreases patients' and caregivers' quality of life. OBJECTIVE To determine if a nutritional education program can prevent weight loss in AD patients. SUBJECTS 151 AD patients and their caregivers were enrolled to follow the intervention and 74 AD patients and ...

results out of 66 patients, 61 (19 in group a, 20 in group b, and 22 in group c) completed the study period, and before intervention, all groups were equal in terms of quality and quantity variables (p > 0.05). after intervention, there was a significant difference between the three groups with regard to the variables of dialysis adequacy based on kt/v and urr to independent-t test and repeated...

Background: Osteoporosis is a common increasing disease on which the lifestyle has an important role. This study aimed to examine the two educational methods (lecture and texting) using the theory of planned behavior on improving the osteoporosis preventive nutritional behaviors in high school students. Materials and Methods: This semi-experimental study conducted on 138 female students in who ...

Objective: To explore application of Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002) scale in nutritional screening for thoracic surgery, and to analyze the nutritional nursing methods. Methods: Totally 98 patients with thoracic surgery in our hospital from March 2013 to March 2017 were randomly divided into control group and observation group, 49 cases in each group. The control group received routi...