Follow-up Home Visits With Nutrition

Malnutrition Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Follow-up Home Visits With Nutrition (OHE)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01249716
• Other study ID #: 22
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 29, 2010
• Last updated: March 27, 2012
• Start date: December 2010
• Est. completion date: March 2012

Study information

• Verified date: March 2012
• Source: University of Copenhagen
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: the Danish Data Protection Agency
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To assess the effect on geriatric patients of follow-up home visit including nutrition.

The hypothesis is that this can prevent hospital readmissions, and has a positive impact on functional abilities and quality of life

Description:

Before and after the intervention the participants nutritional status, hand grip strength, functional abilities, well-being, dietary intake, level of tiredness,and activities of daily living will be assessed

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 152
• Est. completion date: March 2012
• Est. primary completion date: March 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 65 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Geriatric patients in nutritional risk

Exclusion Criteria:

• Dementia

• Expected readmissions

• Terminal disease

• Non-Danish speaking

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Malnutrition

Intervention

Dietary Supplement:
• individual nutritional therapy
individual nutritional therapy provided by a registered dietician by means of three follow-up home visits

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Geriatric department	Herlev

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Copenhagen

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

References & Publications (1)

Beck AM, Kjær S, Hansen BS, Storm RL, Thal-Jantzen K. Study protocol: follow-up home visits with nutrition: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Geriatr. 2011 Dec 28;11:90. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-90. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	hospital readmissions		one year	No
Secondary	body weight		12 weeks	No