Oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status among inpatients admitted in a tertiary hospital

• Localización: Nutrición hospitalaria: Órgano oficial de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Clínica y Metabolismo (SENPE), ISSN-e 1699-5198, ISSN 0212-1611, Vol. 28, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 1357-1360
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Introduction:

    Malnutrition is very common in hospitals and inpatients with prescription of oral nutritional supplementation have improvement of the nutritional status.

    Objectives:

    To detect the total acceptance rate and a possible association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status.

    Methods:

    A cross-sectional study was carried out among 398 inpatients. Fifteen types of supplements were analyzed and nutritional status was detected by Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). Rest-ingestion index (RI) was obtained and Modified Poisson�s regression was used to detect associations between nutritional status and intake of nutritional supplements.

    Results:

    The prevalence of malnutrition was 43.7% and overall acceptance of supplements was around 75%. Industrialized supplements have better acceptance among well-nourished inpatients and patients who ate less than 80% of the supplement offered (industrialized or homemade) had higher risk for malnutrition (48%).

    Conclusion:

    There was an association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status, despite the good acceptance rate.