Screening for nutritional risk among ...
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| Title | Screening for nutritional risk among community-dwelling elderly on Prince Edward Island. |
| Author(s) | D. MacLellan, L. van Til |
| Date | 1998 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Start page | 342 |
| Abstract | The purpose of this survey was to estimate the prevalence of nutritional risk among a group of community-dwelling older persons on Prince Edward Island, aged 70 years and over, and to examine the relationships between health-related factors and nutritional risk. Subjects (n = 215) were interviewed as part of the 1996 Canadian Study of Health and Aging. The prevalence of nutritional risk, as measured by the DETERMINE checklist, in PEI seniors was 37.1% (95% CI = 36.3, 37.9). The prevalence was estimated at 47% after adjusting for the sensitivity and specificity of the checklist. Only pain was a significant predictor of the presence or absence of nutritional risk (logistic regression, p = 0.05). The only predictor to discriminate between the three categories of no nutritional risk, moderate risk, and high risk was depression (Kruskal-Wallis, p = 0.035). Several limitations were identified with the use of the DETERMINE checklist. |
| ISSN | 00084263 |
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