A Brief Intervention for Malnutrition among Older Adults: Stepping Up Your Nutrition .
| Autor: | Smith ML; Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, TX 77843, USA.; School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, TX 77843, USA.; College of Public Health, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA., Bergeron CD; Center for Population Health and Aging, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, TX 77843, USA.; Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Québec G1V 5B3, Canada., Lachenmayr S; Maryland Living Well Center of Excellence, Salisbury, MD 21804, USA., Eagle LA; Maryland Living Well Center of Excellence, Salisbury, MD 21804, USA., Simon JR; Maryland Department of Aging, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | International journal of environmental research and public health [Int J Environ Res Public Health] 2020 May 20; Vol. 17 (10). Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 20. |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17103590 |
| Abstrakt: | Despite a multitude of nutritional risk factors among older adults, there is a lack of community-based programs and activities that screen for malnutrition and address modifiable risk among this vulnerable population. Given the known association of protein and fluid consumption with fall-related risk among older adults and the high prevalence of falls among Americans age 65 years and older each year, a brief intervention was created. Stepping Up Your Nutrition (SUYN) is a 2.5 h workshop developed through a public/private partnership to motivate older adults to reduce their malnutrition risk. The purposes of this naturalistic workshop dissemination were to: (1) describe the SUYN brief intervention; (2) identify participant characteristics associated with malnutrition risk; and (3) identify participant characteristics associated with subsequent participation in Stepping On (SO), an evidence-based fall prevention program. Data were analyzed from 429 SUYN participants, of which 38% ( n = 163) subsequently attended SO. As measured by the SCREEN II ® , high and moderate malnutrition risk scores were reported among approximately 71% and 20% of SUYN participants, respectively. Of the SUYN participants with high malnutrition risk, a significantly larger proportion attended a subsequent SO workshop (79.1%) compared to SUYN participants who did not proceed to SO (65.8%) (χ 2 = 8.73, p = 0.013). Findings suggest SUYN may help to identify malnutrition risk among community-dwelling older adults and link them to needed services like evidence-based programs. Efforts are needed to expand the delivery infrastructure of SUYN to reach more at-risk older adults. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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