Six simple questions to detect malnutrition or malnutrition risk in elderly women
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Título: | Six simple questions to detect malnutrition or malnutrition risk in elderly women |
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Autor/es: | Gutiérrez-Gómez, Tranquilina | Cortés Castell, Ernesto | Palazón Bru, Antonio | Peñarrieta-de Córdova, Isabel | Gil Guillén, Vicente | Ferrer Diego, Rosa |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Salud y Cuidados en Grupos Vulnerables (SACU) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería |
Palabras clave: | Malnutrition | Elderly | Statistical models | Primary health care |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Enfermería |
Fecha de publicación: | 13-oct-2015 |
Editor: | PeerJ |
Cita bibliográfica: | Gutiérrez-Gómez T, Cortés E, Palazón-Bru A, Peñarrieta-de Córdova I, Gil-Guillén VF, Ferrer-Diego RM. (2015) Six simple questions to detect malnutrition or malnutrition risk in elderly women. PeerJ 3:e1316 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1316 |
Resumen: | Of the numerous instruments available to detect nutritional risk, the most widely used is the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), but it takes 15–20 min to complete and its systematic administration in primary care units is not feasible in practice. We developed a tool to evaluate malnutrition risk that can be completed more rapidly using just clinical variables. Between 2008 and 2013, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 418 women aged ≥60 years from Mexico. Our outcome was positive MNA and our secondary variables included were: physical activity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, educational level, dentition, psychological problems, living arrangements, history of falls, age and the number of tablets taken daily. The sample was divided randomly into two groups: construction and validation. Construction: a risk table was constructed to estimate the likelihood of the outcome, and risk groups were formed. Validation: the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was calculated and we compared the expected and the observed outcomes. The following risk factors were identified: physical activity, hypertension, diabetes, dentition, psychological problems and living with the family. The AUC was 0.77 (95% CI [0.68–0.86], p < 0.001). No differences were found between the expected and the observed outcomes (p = 0.902). This study presents a new malnutrition screening test for use in elderly women. The test is based on six very simple, quick and easy-to-evaluate questions, enabling the MNA to be reserved for confirmation. However, it should be used with caution until validation studies have been performed in other geographical areas. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/50287 |
ISSN: | 2167-8359 |
DOI: | 10.7717/peerj.1316 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | Copyright 2015 Gutiérrez-Gómez et al. Distributed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1316 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - SACU - Artículos de Revistas |
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