Abstract

LAMMEL RICARDI, Juliana; MARCADENTI, Aline; PEROCCHIN DE SOUZA, Simone  and  SIVIERO RIBEIRO, Anelise. Oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status among inpatients admitted in a tertiary hospital. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2013, vol.28, n.4, pp.1357-1360. ISSN 1699-5198.  https://dx.doi.org/10.3305/nh.2013.28.4.6499.

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.

Keywords : Dietary Supplements; Nutritional Status; Malnutrition; Patient Acceptance of Health Care.

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