Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Nord University, Bodø, Norway.
Institute for Regional Health Research, Southern Danish University, Ortopedic dep., Lillebaelt University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
Trials. 2024 Apr 15;25(1):262. doi: 10.1186/s13063-024-08096-8.
Disease-related malnutrition after a hospital stay has major consequences for older adults, the healthcare system and society. This study aims to develop and test the effectiveness of an educational video to prevent loss of health-related quality of life among live-at-home older adults after surgical treatment in a hospital.
This randomised controlled trial will occur at a regional hospital in Norway. Participants will be live-at-home adults aged 65 years and older. They will be recruited from three different surgical departments after a surgical procedure. Individuals with a body mass index below 24 and a home address in one of nine selected municipalities will be eligible for inclusion. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the control group. Those assigned to the intervention group will obtain access to a 6-min educational video 5 days after being discharged from the hospital. The control group will not obtain access to the video. The primary outcome will be health-related quality of life using the Norwegian Rand 36-Item Short Form Health Survey. Furthermore, we will measure body composition, number of readmissions and nutritional knowledge at inclusion and 3-month follow-up.
This randomised controlled trial is expected to provide insight into whether an educational video can improve the nutritional status of older adults following a surgical procedure and discharge from the hospital. The findings will be useful for assessing how videos offering nutritional advice to older adults who have undergone a surgical procedure can improve their health-related quality of life, reduce loss of function, prevent readmission to hospital and reduce healthcare costs.
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05950373. Registered on 11 July 2023.
住院后与疾病相关的营养不良对老年人、医疗保健系统和社会都有重大影响。本研究旨在开发和测试一种教育视频的有效性，以防止接受过医院手术治疗的居家老年人在术后失去与健康相关的生活质量。
这是一项在挪威一家地区医院进行的随机对照试验。参与者将是年龄在 65 岁及以上的居家成年人。他们将在三个不同的外科科室接受手术后被招募。身体质量指数低于 24 且家庭住址在 9 个选定的市之一的个体将有资格被纳入。参与者将被随机分配到干预组或对照组。分配到干预组的参与者将在出院后 5 天获得一个 6 分钟的教育视频。对照组将无法获得该视频。主要结局将使用挪威兰德 36 项简短健康调查问卷评估健康相关的生活质量。此外，我们将在纳入和 3 个月随访时测量身体成分、再次入院的次数和营养知识。
这项随机对照试验预计将提供有关教育视频是否可以改善接受手术和出院后老年人营养状况的信息。研究结果将有助于评估向接受过手术的老年人提供营养建议的视频如何提高他们的健康相关生活质量、减少功能丧失、预防再次住院和降低医疗保健成本。
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05950373。于 2023 年 7 月 11 日注册。
