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Comparing assessment tools as candidates for personalized nutritional evaluation of senior citizens in a nursing home

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Médicas
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorSousa-Catita, Diogo
dc.contributor.authorBernardo, Maria Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Carla Adriana
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Maria Leonor
dc.contributor.authorMascarenhas, Paulo
dc.contributor.authorGodinho, Catarina
dc.contributor.authorFonseca, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-16T11:02:33Z
dc.date.available2025-09-16T11:02:33Z
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.description.abstractNutrition is an important health issue for seniors. In nursing homes, simple, inexpensive, fast, and validated tools to assess nutritional risk/status are indispensable. A multisurvey cross-sectional study with a convenient sample was created, comparing five nutritional screening/assessment tools and the time required for each, in order to identify the most useful instrument for a nursing home setting. Nutrition risk/status was evaluated using the following tools: Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF), Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002), and calf girth (CG). The time spent completing each tool was recorded. Eighty-three subjects were included. MNA-SF and CG were the screening tools that ranked highest with regards to malnutrition identification. CG failed to identify nutritional risk/malnutrition in seniors with lower limb edema. CG was the fastest tool while SGA was the slowest. This was the first study comparing non-invasive nutritional tools with time expended as a consideration in the implementation. CG is responsive, fast, and reliable in elders without edema. MNA-SF was more efficient at detecting malnutrition cases in the elderly population. Both MNA-SF and CG are considered the most suitable for the nursing home setting.eng
dc.description.abstractNutrition is an important health issue for seniors. In nursing homes, simple, inexpensive, fast, and validated tools to assess nutritional risk/status are indispensable. A multisurvey cross-sectional study with a convenient sample was created, comparing five nutritional screening/assessment tools and the time required for each, in order to identify the most useful instrument for a nursing home setting. Nutrition risk/status was evaluated using the following tools: Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF), Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002), and calf girth (CG). The time spent completing each tool was recorded. Eighty-three subjects were included. MNA-SF and CG were the screening tools that ranked highest with regards to malnutrition identification. CG failed to identify nutritional risk/malnutrition in seniors with lower limb edema. CG was the fastest tool while SGA was the slowest. This was the first study comparing non-invasive nutritional tools with time expended as a consideration in the implementation. CG is responsive, fast, and reliable in elders without edema. MNA-SF was more efficient at detecting malnutrition cases in the elderly population. Both MNA-SF and CG are considered the most suitable for the nursing home setting.eng
dc.identifier.citationSousa-Catita D, Bernardo MA, Santos CA, Silva ML, Mascarenhas P, Godinho C, Fonseca J. Comparing Assessment Tools as Candidates for Personalized Nutritional Evaluation of Senior Citizens in a Nursing Home. Nutrients. 2021; 13(11):4160. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13114160
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/nu13114160
dc.identifier.issn2072-6643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/58675
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://doi.org/10.3390/nu13114160
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectGeriatric
dc.subjectGeriatric
dc.subjectAging
dc.subjectAging
dc.subjectOld age
dc.subjectOld age
dc.subjectnutritional screening
dc.subjectnutritional screening
dc.subjectmini nutritional assessment short form
dc.subjectmini nutritional assessment short form
dc.subjectcalf girth
dc.subjectcalf girth
dc.titleComparing assessment tools as candidates for personalized nutritional evaluation of senior citizens in a nursing homeeng
dc.typecontribution to journal
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue11
oaire.citation.startPage4160
oaire.citation.titleNutrients
oaire.citation.volume13
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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