Developing a Nutrition Support Assessment Tool

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Nutrition Assessment; Food Insecurity
• Interventions: Other: Nutrition Interventions

• Registration Number: NCT06450860
• Lead Sponsor: Thomas Jefferson University

Brief Summary

The research team developed the Nutrition Support Assessment Tool (NSAT) that incorporates key patient life information (e.g., ability to cook, access to refrigerator/stove, medical conditions and nutritional status) to facilitate individualized nutrition referral. The overall goal of this study is to refine and test the NSAT as a systematic approach to provide individualized nutrition needs screening and referral for patients being discharged from the acute care setting at Jefferson Health. The investigators hypothesize the NSAT will be successful in identifying individualized nutrition referrals that are deemed acceptable and appropriate by enrolled participants.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-05-21
• Study First Submitted: 2024-05-23
• Status Verified: 2024-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-06-06
• Study First Posted: 2024-06-10
• Primary Completion: 2024-11-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-28
• Study Completion: 2025-04
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Currently admitted to Thomas Jefferson University or Methodist Hospital or Emergency Department
• Has working phone number and is willing to participate in follow-up data collection
• Eats by mouth
• Lives in MANNA's geographic service area
• Patient reports food insecurity or malnutrition using existing screening tools

Exclusion Criteria

• Unwilling to provide consent
• Unsheltered/unhoused
• Lives in or is being discharged to facility that provides daily meals (e.g., long term care, incarcerated)
• On hospice or has life expectancy of less than 4 months, per clinician
• Not consentable
• Deaf or has other major communication barriers that compromises ability to participate in study activities

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nutrition Intervention	Nutrition Interventions	Participants receive an individualized food provision and/or supplemental food support referral based on responses to the NSAT.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Reach of Nutrition Interventions	Baseline	# and type of referrals made based on NSAT results

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Uptake of Nutrition Interventions	Week 1 & Week 4	# and type of referrals accepted and utilized by participants
Acceptability of Nutrition Intervention	Week 1 & Week 4	Acceptability of nutrition interventions using the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM)
Satisfaction with Nutrition Intervention	Week 4	Self-reported satisfaction with nutrition intervention using a research-team developed assessment.
Appropriateness of Nutrition Intervention	Week 1 & Week 4	Appropriateness of nutrition interventions using the Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States