Evaluation of attitudes towards old age among older adults in an institutional facility

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0003" target="_blank" >10.15452/CEJNM.2017.08.0003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evaluation of attitudes towards old age among older adults in an institutional facility

Original language description

Aim: The study aimed at determining the nutritional status of senior citizens in a general practitioner's office. Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: Nutritional status was assessed with the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Mini Nutritional Assessment ? Short Form (MNA-SF) and laboratory parameters (prealbumin, transferrin and CRP). The study comprised 241 participants. The significance of differences in selected nutritional markers for various groups was determined using a chi-squared test, Spearman's correlation coefficient and Fisher's test at a critical statistical significance level of 0.05. Results: Malnutrition was detected in a relatively high proportion of the elderly, ranging from 13% to 90% depending on the tools used. There were significant differences between the tools when identifying patients as malnourished or being at risk of malnutrition. The MNA revealed more patients at risk of or with malnutrition (90%) than the MNA-SF (58%) or MUST (13%). No statistically significant correlations were found either between nutritional status and biochemical markers of nutrition or between nutritional status and age of the elderly. Conclusion: In the general practice setting, nutrition of the elderly must not be neglected as adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for faster convalescence and return to a normal life.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

ISSN

2336-3517

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

565-571

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85016166965