The Southampton Mealtime Assistance Roll-out Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 258
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Feasibility and acceptability of volunteer mealtime assistants in different hospital departments
研究概览
简要总结
The Southampton Mealtime Assistance Study aims to determine whether it is feasible and acceptable to introduce trained volunteers as mealtime assistants in five different departments of one large hospital.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 70 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients over the age of 70 years admitted to one of the wards under study
排除标准
- •Patients with active bowel pathology
- •Patients in the terminal phase of their life
- •Patients who are artificially fed (parenterally or enterally)
研究组 & 干预措施
Volunteer mealtime assistance
Trained volunteers will provide mealtime assistance to older hospital inpatients at one mealtime each weekday.
干预措施: Volunteer mealtime assistance (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Feasibility and acceptability of volunteer mealtime assistants in different hospital departments
时间窗: 16 months
Is it feasible to recruit and sustain sufficient volunteers to provide mealtime assistance across a large hospital trust? Are these volunteers acceptable to patients, relatives, and staff? This will be determined by recording the number of volunteers recruited, trained and assessed and by recording their activity, in numbers of mealtimes assisted per week and duration of volunteering. If a volunteer discontinues their role, the reasons will be identified for this. Acceptability will be assessed through qualitative methods- interviews with patients and relatives and focus groups with nursing staff and volunteers.
次要结局
- Changes in food choice and dietary intake before and after the introduction of volunteer mealtime assistants(16 months)
- Costs to the hospital trust associated with implementing a volunteer mealtime assistance programme(16 months)