Nutritional Intakes in Burn Patients Treated as Outpatients

Completed

• Conditions: Burns; Nutritional Deficiency

• Registration Number: NCT03914560
• Lead Sponsor: University of Liege

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-06-01
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Primary Completion: 2019-04-05
• Study Completion: 2019-04-05
• Study First Submitted: 2019-04-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-04-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-04-12
• Study First Posted: 2019-04-16
• Last Update Posted: 2019-04-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 51

Inclusion Criteria

• Burn treated exclusively in an outpatient clinic

Exclusion Criteria

• Not french speaking
• Psychiatric disorders
• Patient refusal

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
nutritional intakes	During the first week following injury	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).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Body composition	During the first week following injury	Body composition measured using bio impedance
Handgrip strength	During the first week following injury	Strength measured an handheld dynamometer

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital of Li§ge; 🇧🇪 Liège, Belgium