Nutritional form for the elderly is a reliable and valid instrument for the determination of undernutrition risk, and it is associated with health-related quality of life.

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Nutritional form for the elderly is a reliable and valid instrument for the determination of undernutrition risk, and it is associated with health-related quality of life.

Krisztina Kertész Zoltán Prohászka Zoltán Prohászka Ulrika Söderhamn Olle Söderhamn Olle Söderhamn Tímea Gombos ÁGnes Csíkos

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Gerontology Male Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Risk Assessment Sensitivity and Specificity Endocrinology Quality of life (healthcare)EQ-5D Surveys and Questionnaires Medicine Humans Risk factor Geriatric Assessment Aged Health related quality of life Nutrition and Dietetics Anthropometry business.industry Malnutrition Reproducibility of Results social sciences Anthropometry medicine.disease humanities Malnutrition Nutrition Assessment Quality of Life Female Risk assessment business Body mass index

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Undernutrition is a common problem associated with clinical complications such as impaired immune response, reduced muscle strength, impaired wound healing, and susceptibility to infections; therefore, it is an important treatment target to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with chronic diseases and aging. The aim of the present study was to apply a reliable and valid instrument for the determination of undernutrition risk in an in-hospital patient population and to describe possible associations between risk of undernutrition and some aspects of health-related quality of life in patients with chronic diseases. Fifty-six adult patients with different chronic diseases were interviewed with NUFFE questionnaire and the EQ-5D. Anthropometric measurements were performed. Reliability and validity of the NUFFE instrument was tested, and its correlation with EQ-5D was calculated. Euro-Qol scores correlated significantly with the total NUFFE scores and with the items constructing the most important factor of the instrument, explaining 53.74% of its variance. Nutritional form for the elderly was shown to be a reliable instrument in the study group because its internal consistency measured by Cronbach alpha was 0.62, and the item-total score correlations were significant for the half of the items. Criterion-related validity, concurrent validity, and construct validity of NUFFE were established. We have shown that impaired level of health-related quality of life is an important determinant of risk for undernutrition. Nutritional form for the elderly is an appropriate instrument to estimate undernutrition risk in a general, in-hospital patient population with various chronic diseases and to identify "at risk" patients who may benefit from professional dietary interventions to reduce undernutrition-related complications.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2007-05-17	Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.)

10.1016/j.nutres.2007.12.003 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19083389