Improvement of Nutritional Status in Elderly Residents of Long-term Facilities

Improvement of Nutritional Status in Elderly Residents of Long-term Facilities: Impact of Two Strategies (Oral Care and Dietary Control)

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00873717

Acronym

Nutrident

Enrollment

114

Registered

2009-04-02

Start date

2009-01-31

Completion date

2012-07-31

Last updated

2012-07-26

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Conditions

Nutrition Disorders

Keywords

elderly, long-term facilities, nutritional status

Brief summary

Elderly persons in long-term facilities often have denutrition, associated with a bad oral and dental status. Yet, many elderly persons don't attend dentist care and when they have dental prothesis, do not often use them during meals. The impact of a rehabilitation of dental function on their nutritional status has not been proven. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of 2 strategies aimed to restore a good nutritional status, among patients with slight denutrition.

Detailed description

Two interventions are evaluated during a 1 year study period, with a 4 arms factorial design. The Dentary intervention implies a trimestrial follow-up of patients and counseling for appropriate care (if needed), in order to restore a minimum masticatory function, associated with particular focus on the realization of daily oral wash. The Nutrition intervention consists in 1) comparing the meals and oral supplements administered with the dietary prescriptions and 2) Incite patients to eat.

Interventions

OTHERDentary

cleaning-up of oral cavity, with trimestrial dental and oral check-up with counseling for appropriate care (if needed).

OTHERNutrition

control of the administration of dietary prescriptions, incitement to eat.

OTHERDentary + Nutrition

trimestrial follow-up of patients and counseling for appropriate care (if needed), in order to restore a minimum masticatory function, associated with particular focus on the realization of daily oral wash. associated with control of the administration of dietary prescriptions, incitement to eat.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

FACTORIAL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

70 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index = 83.5 to 97.5; minimum age of 70 years old; living in long-term facilities; more than 6 months of anticipated length of stay

Exclusion criteria

* refusal to participate in the study

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
comparison of GNRI mean-score between arms	1 year

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026