Nutrición Hospitalaria
ISSN 1699-5198 ISSN 0212-1611
DE LUIS, Daniel Antonio et al. A real-world study to evaluate adherence and flavor of a high-protein hypercaloric oral nutritional supplement in patients with malnutrition in a hospital. []. , 39, 2, pp.298-304. 09--2022. ISSN 1699-5198. https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.03903.
Aim:
the objective of our real-life study was to evaluate adherence and taste preferences of a hypercaloric and hyperprotein oral nutritional supplement (ONS) in malnourished hospitalized patients.
Methods:
a total of 34 in patients with recent weight loss were included in this study. One flavor (coffe, vanilla or strawberry) was administered each day in a random way to each patient during three consecutive days. In the first three days, patients were asked to fulfill two questionnaires intended to reflect ONS (Renutryl®) tolerance and acceptance. Adherence to the ONS was measured during hospital stay.
Results:
the sweet flavor was higher for strawberry (4.54 ± 0.2 points) than for the vanilla flavor (3.13 ± 0.1 points; p < 0.03) and coffee flavor (3.03 ± 0.1 points; p <0.02). When analyzing the total number of patients who took supplements after choosing the flavor, the patients who chose coffee took a total of 13.3 ± 1.1 packages on average during hospitalization (0.91 ± 0.2 per day), the patients who chose strawberry took 13.4 ± 1.3 packages (0.92 ± 0.1 per day), and finally the patients who chose vanilla packages took 8.3 ± 0, 9 packages during admission (0.61 ± 0.1 per day), with significant differences in favor of the strawberry and coffee flavors versus vanilla. The ONS chosen mostly by the patients at hospital discharge was the multiflavor pack (n = 20; 50 %).
Conclusions:
taste preferences for the three flavored ONSs are similar, although adherence was higher during admission to the coffee- and strawberry-flavored ONS. Sweetness may have influenced this finding, especially with the strawberry flavor, with a good tolerance of all three flavors
: Adherence; Acceptance; Oral nutritional supplement; Tolerance; Flavor.