Elucidation of Sensory Characteristics and Food Preferences in the Elderly

Malnutrition Clinical Trial

— AUPALESENS  

Official title:

Elucidation of Sensory Characteristics and Food Preferences in the Elderly

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02873858
• Other study ID #: PFITZENMEYER 2010
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 4, 2016
• Last updated: August 16, 2016
• Start date: December 2010
• Est. completion date: July 2011

Study information

• Verified date: July 2016
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Malnutrition is a frequent problem in persons older than 65 years: the prevalence of malnutrition can reach 25 to 29% in persons living at home who require help, figures vary between 19 and 38% for those living in institutions, and finally, the prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized elderly patients can reach 30 to 90%. A few studies have attempted to explain modifications in attitudes, behaviour, the frequency of meals or nutritional status in the elderly by a fall in chemosensory sensitivity The aim of this project is to test the hypothesis that perhaps it is not as much the capacity to perceive a smell or a taste that affects eating behaviour in the elderly as their ability to distinguish between smells or tastes on the one hand (perceptual processing), and their ability to correctly interpret a chemosensory signal on the other (cognitive processing).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 611
• Est. completion date: July 2011
• Est. primary completion date: July 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 65 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Persons older than 65 years.

• Persons with diabetes, heart disease or hypertension stabilized by a treatment.

• Persons cognitively able to carry out the tests and fill in the questionnaires (Folstein test between 22 and 30).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any person suffering from an acute disease at the time of the test.

• Any person presenting any allergy whatsoever (food, mites, pollen…).

• Any person suffering from asthma or severe respiratory disorders (lung cancer, tracheotomy…).

• Any person presenting anosmia (total loss of olfaction) from birth or following physical trauma (head injury) or due to disease (severe rhinitis).

• Persons with diabetes, heart disease or hypertension not stabilized by treatment.

• Any person presenting life expectancy of less than 6 months.

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Malnutrition

Intervention

Other:
• smell and taste tests

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU Dijon Bourgogne	Dijon

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Indeed the level of dependency of scores at each of the olfactory tests, gustatory and masticatory		Day 1	No