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Nutritional screening of older home-dwelling Norwegians: a comparison between two instruments
Author(s) -
Ulrika Söderhamn,
Bjørg Dale,
Kari Sundsli,
Olle Söderhamn
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s35986
Subject(s) - medicine , malnutrition , norwegian , logistic regression , gerontology , environmental health , psychological intervention , descriptive statistics , cross sectional study , older people , nursing , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , mathematics , pathology
It is important to obtain knowledge about the prevalence of nutritional risk and associated factors among older home-dwelling people in order to be able to meet nutritional challenges in this group in the future and to plan appropriate interventions. The aim of this survey was to investigate the prevalence of home-dwelling older people at nutritional risk and to identify associated factors using two different nutritional screening instruments as self-report instruments.

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