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Evaluation of the effectiveness of dietary interventions for improving malnutrition among community-dwelling older people

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Healthy subjects
Registration Number
JPRN-UMIN000053440
Lead Sponsor
Kanagawa University of Human Services
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
80
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

- Persons who cannot make telephone calls on their own - Persons who have difficulty in making decisions about research consent (substitute consent is not acceptable) - Persons who is certified in the Japanese Long-term Care Insurance system. - Persons who have been hospitalized for more than one week within one year - Persons who are scheduled to be hospitalized or admitted within the next six months - Persons who plan to move or travel for a week or more during the study period. - Persons who are receiving nutritional guidance at any medical institution. - Persons who are restricting energy or protein intake (e.g., have been instructed by a physician to limit energy or protein intake) - Persons who have difficulty eating food by mouth (e.g., have difficulty in chewing and swallowing) - Persons with food allergies (egg, milk, wheat, shrimp, crab, peanut, buckwheat, etc.) - Persons who cannot refrigerate or heat provided foods at home.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Muscle mass (change from the start of the intervention to 6 months)
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1. Frailty score: The revised Japanese version of the cardiovascular health study criteria (revised J-CHS criteria) 2. Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) score 3. Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) score 4. Serum albumin 5. Total serum protein 6. Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition: Phenotypic Criteria 7. Body weight 8. Diet-related quality of life scale 9. Dietary intake 10. Appetite 11. Compliance with protocol implementation 12. Physical activity 13. Sleep status
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