Analysis of EPA® (a Food Intake Assessment Tool) as a Screening Test for Malnutrition in General Medicine

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03555461

Acronym

GEN-EPA

Enrollment

563

Registered

2018-06-13

Start date

2018-01-22

Completion date

2018-04-13

Last updated

2018-06-13

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Conditions

Malnutrition

Brief summary

The main objective is to evaluate the sensitivity of the EPA® for screening for malnutrition in general medicine in adults.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* To be an adult, * Consulting the principal investigator, a general practitioner in his activity of substitute doctor, * During the inclusion period, * Not opposed to participating in the study.

Exclusion criteria

* Patients benefiting from artificial nutrition, * Patients with advanced dementia, * Pregnant or postpartum women, * Patients who do not understand or speak French, * Patients treated with diuretics who have had a change in treatment dosage during the last 6 months, * Patients for whom weight measurement is not possible in the office (wheelchair, disability ...), * Patients who have already been included once, * Patients who have had surgery for obesity, * Major persons subject to legal protection (legal safeguards, guardianship, tutorship), persons deprived of their liberty, ...

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
presence or absence of malnutrition	The inclusion day	presence or absence of malnutrition based on BMI and / or percentage of weight loss
Score EPA	The inclusion day	score obtained with the EPA® tool (assessment of food intake)

Countries

France

Outcome results