Studying the Association Between Folic Acid Deficiency and Social Isolation for Elderly Patients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 61
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Measure of plasma concentration on vitamin B9 by blood test taken in regular hospital admission
研究概览
简要总结
Social isolation among elderly people is a frequent and major determinant for health.
The risk of premature death is 2 to 5 time higher for socially isolated people, similarly for morbidity, duration of healing and complications rate.
Denutrition is also frequent for elderly people with potentially serious consequences. Vitamin deficiency, especially in B9 and B12 vitamins, are often associated with denutrition among elderly people.
Folic acid (vitamin B9) is not influenced by inflammation and folic acid income are necessarily exogene. Vitamin B9 is provided by fresh fruits and vegetables, and giblets.
The investigators observed a high prevalence in folic acid deficiency for socially isolated elderly patients. The investigators made the hypothesis that a folic acid defiency is associated with social isolation for elderly people.
The primary purpose is the study of the association between folic acid deficiency (measured by dosing of plasma concentration of vitamin B9) and social isolation evaluated by Lubben Social Network Scale in 6 questions.
The secondary purposes are the study of the correlation between folic acid deficiency and social conditions, nutritional status, biological data, poly pharmacy, cognitive functions, dependency and length of stay at hospital.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 75 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Measure of plasma concentration on vitamin B9 by blood test taken in regular hospital admission
时间窗: 10 weeks
Folic acid deficiency is evaluated by dosing of plasma concentration of vitamin B9 through blood test taken in regular hospital admission. Folic acid deficiency is defined by a concentration under 3 ng/mL.
Measure of social isolation by Lubben Social Network Scale in 6 questions
时间窗: 10 weeks
Social isolation is measured by score results on LSNS-6 auto-survey. A score lower than 12/30 is associated with social isolation.
次要结局
未报告次要终点