Screening for Nutritional Risk Among Community-dwelling Elderly on Prince Edward Island
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 89 (5) , 342-346
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03404488
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. L’objectif de ce sondage était d’estimer la prévalence des risques associés à la nutrition chez un groupe de personnes âgées de 70 ans et plus qui résident dans la communauté, à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard, et d’examiner le lien qui existe entre certains facteurs de santé et les risques associés à la nutrition. Les sujets (n=215) ont été questionnés comme partie de l’Étude sur la santé et le vieillissement au Canada. La prévalence des risques associés à la nutrition chez les personnes âgées de l’Î.-P.-É., telle que mesurée à l’aide de la liste de contrôle DETERMINE, était de 37,1 % (95 % IC=36,3–37,9). Seule la douleur a été un prédicteur important de la présence ou de l’absence de risques associés à la nutrition (régression logistique, p=0,05). Le seul pré-dicteur permettant une discrimination entre les trois catégories (pas de risques associés à la nutrition, risques modérés et risques élevés) était la dépression (test de Kruskal-Wallis, p=0,035). On a dénombré plusieurs restrictions associées à l’usage de la liste de contrôle DETERMINE.Keywords
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