Nutritional Intakes in Burn Patients Treated as Outpatients

Burns Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of Macronutrients and Micronutrients Intakes in Burn Patients Treated as Outpatients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03914560
• Other study ID #: ABA
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: April 5, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: University Hospital of Liege
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Nutrition is a key component of burn care. The primary goal of nutrition is to provide adequate supply in macro and micronutrients that are necessary to maintain organ function but also to wound healing, infection control and muscle preservation.

Studies about nutrition and burn care are mainly focused on severe burn patients. There is a few or no data regarding nutrition in minor burns. Those patients rarely receive a multidisciplinary approach, at least in Belgium.

The present study aimed to describe the nutritional condition of less severe burn patients treated as outpatients in a Belgian burn center. The ultimate goal was to determine whether this population needs specific dietetics follow-up or not.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 51
• Est. completion date: April 5, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: April 5, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 1 Year and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Burn treated exclusively in an outpatient clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not french speaking

• Psychiatric disorders

• Patient refusal

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burns
• Malnutrition
• Nutritional Deficiency

Intervention

Other:
• Burn injury
minor burn injury

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	University Hospital of Li§ge	Liège

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital of Liege

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	nutritional intakes	Using a standardized food questionnaire, mean daily nutritional intakes were calculated for each patient (macronutrients and micronutrients). Food questionnaire is a questionnaire created by our dietetics unit, aiming to quantify the amount of food eaten at each meal. Quantities of macronutrients and micronutrients at each meal were then calculated using tables of food content (Nubel for all nutrients, excepting vitamin E calculated according Ciqual table).	During the first week following injury
Secondary	Body composition	Body composition measured using bio impedance	During the first week following injury
Secondary	Handgrip strength	Strength measured an handheld dynamometer	During the first week following injury