Feasibility of Nutritional Telemonitoring in Elderly Home Care Patients

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Undernutrition; Aging
• Interventions: Other: Nutritional telemonitoring

• Registration Number: NCT03211845
• Lead Sponsor: Wageningen University

Brief Summary

An optimal nutritional status is essential for healthy ageing. Telemonitoring might contribute to maintaining or improving nutritional status in elderly people.The objectives of this pilot study are to test the feasibility, acceptability and implementation fidelity of telemonitoring of nutritional parameters in community-dwelling older adults; to test the study procedures for effect evaluation; and to determine the likelihood of achieving desired impact on the primary and secondary outcomes.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-05-27
• Primary Completion: 2015-11-20
• Study Completion: 2015-11-20
• Status Verified: 2017-07
• Study First Submitted: 2017-07-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-07-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-07-05
• Study First Posted: 2017-07-07
• Last Update Posted: 2017-07-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

Having a care referral for at least one of the following types of care:

• Domestic care
• Personal care
• Nursing care
• Individual or group support

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe cognitive impairment (Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) < 20)
• Receiving terminal care
• Expected length of receiving home care < three months
• Not having a television at home
• Clients with a visual impairment (not able to watch the television screen)
• Clients with a physical impairment in such a way, that they are not able to use the telemonitoring system
• Clients with nursing home care

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nutritional telemonitoring	Nutritional telemonitoring	Nutritional telemonitoring including self-measurements of body weight, nutritional status, appetite, diet quality and physical activity. Additionally, participants receive guidance on nutrition and physical activity by means of customized and general television messages and/or if necessary personal guidance by a nurse.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Feasibility (qualitative outcome)	12 weeks	Qualitative outcome, measured using the process indicators acceptability, implementation, dose received, applicability. Data on these process indicators are collected using logbooks, semi-structured interviews, and questionnaires with items to be answered on a 5-point likert scale.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life (SF-36)	12 weeks	Measured by Short-Form 36
Appetite (SNAQ)	12 weeks	Measured by Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire
Behavioural determinants	12 weeks	Measured by a self-developed questionnaire with statements concerning nutrition and physical activity to be answered on a 5-point likert scale.
Nutritional status (MNA)	12 weeks	Measured by Mini Nutritional Assessment
Functional status (KATZ-15)	12 weeks	Measured by KATZ-15
Diet quality (DHD-index)	12 weeks	Measured by Dutch Healthy Diet index (DHD-index)
Body weight (kg)	12 weeks	Measured by weighing scale of the brand A\&D, type UC-411PBT-C
Physical functioning (SPPB)	12 weeks	Measured by Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Wageningen University and Research; 🇳🇱 Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands