Journal of the Japan Dietetic Association
Online ISSN : 2185-6877
Print ISSN : 0013-6492
ISSN-L : 0013-6492
Volume 60, Issue 7
Displaying 1-1 of 1 articles from this issue
  • Mika Kudo, Yayoi Tanaka, Kayoko Maeda, Ikuko Nakamura, Keiko Inoue
    2017 Volume 60 Issue 7 Pages 389-397
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: September 26, 2017
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

    In this study, we established a nutritional-care station at the Mutsumi-cho clinic, where we conducted home-visit nutritional support in a nutritional intervention program. After the intervention, we conducted a questionnaire study aimed at the subjects, the personnel involved, and other related staff members in order to investigate the outcome and related methods, etc. The subjects were 14 people who participated in a new intervention program during the period from October 2014 through June 2015. For a total of three times, when the home-visit nutritional support was first conducted, in the middle of the study, and 3 months after the intervention, we compared the nutritional condition of the subjects before and after the intervention, the ADL, and the QOL. In the non-sufficient energy intake group, food intake increased, and the serum albumin value showed a significant increase, rising from 3.2 ± 0.3 to 3.5 ± 0.6 g/dL at the start of and after the intervention, respectively. The Barthel Index showed a tendency for an increase, rising from 30.1 ± 18.2 to 40.0 ± 20.0 points before and 3 months after the intervention, respectively. These results indicated that the nutritional intervention conducted by the registered dieticians improved the nutritional condition of the subjects. By showing a tendency for improvement in the ADL and QOL, the nutritional intervention may have contributed to the prevention of serious illness in the subjects. Furthermore, by employing the timely information dissemination of ICT (Information and Communication Technology), we noticed that the subjects and the nursing staff, as well as all of the other related staff members, actually felt the results of the nutritional intervention program, suggesting that employing an approved nutritional-care station with deep roots in the local region was a viable method to achieve improvement in nutrition in subjects receiving nursing care.

    Download PDF (1362K)
feedback
Top