Norwegian version of the Nutritional Form for the Elderly: sufficient psychometric properties for performing institutional screening of elderly patients.

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Norwegian version of the Nutritional Form for the Elderly: sufficient psychometric properties for performing institutional screening of elderly patients.

Sylvi Monika Flateland Ulrika Söderhamn Olle Söderhamn Liss Jessen

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Male Psychometrics Cross-sectional study Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism tverrsnitt kartlegging Endocrinology Surveys and Questionnaires Medicine ernæringsstatus drikke Aged 80 and over måltid Nutrition and Dietetics Norway underernæring testing Test (assessment)NUFFE-NO Female medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Concurrent validity Norge Diet Surveys Nutritional Form For the Elderly forebygging sykehus mat Cronbach's alpha tverrsnittstudie eldre Humans Geriatric Assessment Aged pasientsikkerhet Receiver operating characteristic livskvalitet business.industry screening risiko Construct validity Reproducibility of Results Health Surveys Confidence interval institusjon helse Cross-Sectional Studies Nutrition Assessment ernæringskartlegging Physical therapy validering business ernæring

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The objective of this study was to test if the Norwegian version of the nutritional screening instrument entitled Nutritional Form for the Elderly (NUFFE-NO) demonstrates sufficient evidence of reliability and validity, including sensitivity and specificity, when applied to a select group of elderly hospital patients. The hypothesis was that NUFFE-NO has sufficient psychometric properties to be used as a screening instrument. The model used for the testing procedure was designed to test reliability (homogeneity and stability) and validity (criterion-related, concurrent validity, and construct validity) including sensitivity and specificity in a cross-sectional study. One-hundred fifty-eight patients were interviewed using the nutritional screening instruments NUFFE-NO and Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA). They were interviewed once again (using NUFFE-NO) 2 to 4 days afterward. Background variables were collected. Data from the patients' records were collected regarding the nutritional screening instrument Nutrition Risk Screening 2002. Anthropometric measurements were performed. A Cronbach alpha coefficient of .77 was obtained. A majority of the items showed good or very good agreement in a test-retest. A high correlation coefficient (as a measurement of concurrent validity) was estimated between NUFFE-NO and MNA. The NUFFE-NO could separate groups with expected high and low scores, which supported construct validity. Calculated sensitivity and specificity values for NUFFE-NO, with MNA as a criterion and receiver operating characteristic curves with areas 0.79 and 0.80, showed appropriate cutoff points for measuring low, medium, and high risk for undernutrition. In conclusion, NUFFE-NO was shown to have sufficient psychometric properties for performing an institutional screening of elderly hospital patients.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2009-09-25	Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.)

10.1016/j.nutres.2009.10.010 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19932864