Comparing assessment tools as candidates for personalized nutritional evaluation of senior citizens in a nursing home

Diogo Sousa-Catita; Maria Alexandra Bernardo; Carla Adriana Santos; Maria Leonor Silva; Paulo Mascarenhas; Catarina Godinho; Jorge Fonseca

doi:10.3390/nu13114160

Comparing assessment tools as candidates for personalized nutritional evaluation of senior citizens in a nursing home

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Nutrition is an important health issue for seniors. In nursing homes, simple, inexpensive, fast, and validated tools to assess nutritional risk/status are indispensable. A multisurvey cross-sectional study with a convenient sample was created, comparing five nutritional screening/assessment tools and the time required for each, in order to identify the most useful instrument for a nursing home setting. Nutrition risk/status was evaluated using the following tools: Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF), Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002), and calf girth (CG). The time spent completing each tool was recorded. Eighty-three subjects were included. MNA-SF and CG were the screening tools that ranked highest with regards to malnutrition identification. CG failed to identify nutritional risk/malnutrition in seniors with lower limb edema. CG was the fastest tool while SGA was the slowest. This was the first study comparing non-invasive nutritional tools with time expended as a consideration in the implementation. CG is responsive, fast, and reliable in elders without edema. MNA-SF was more efficient at detecting malnutrition cases in the elderly population. Both MNA-SF and CG are considered the most suitable for the nursing home setting.

Original language	English
Article number	4160
Journal	Nutrients
Volume	13
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13114160
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021

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Keywords

Aging
Calf girth
Geriatric
Mini nutritional assessment short form
Nutritional screening
Old age

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