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Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Malnutrition in older persons is a public health concern. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Kandy district, Sri Lanka. The nutri...

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Autores principales: Damayanthi, H. D. W. T., Moy, F. M., Abdullah, K. L., Dharmaratne, S. D.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30165826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0892-2
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author Damayanthi, H. D. W. T.
Moy, F. M.
Abdullah, K. L.
Dharmaratne, S. D.
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Moy, F. M.
Abdullah, K. L.
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description BACKGROUND: Malnutrition in older persons is a public health concern. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Kandy district, Sri Lanka. The nutritional status of older persons was assessed using the Mini Nutritional Assessment –Short Form (MNA­SF). A standardised questionnaire was used to record factors associated with malnutrition: demographic characteristics, financial characteristics, food and appetite, lifestyle, psychological characteristics, physical characteristics, disease and care, oral health, and social factors. Complex sample multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed. RESULTS: Among the 999 participants included in the study, 748 (69.3%) were females and 251 (25.1%) were males. The mean age was 70.80 years (95% CI: 70.13, 71.47). The prevalence of malnutrition, risk of malnutrition and well-nutrition was 12.5%, 52.4% and 35.1% respectively. In the multivariate model, hypertension (adjusted OR = 1.71; 95% CI: 1.02, 2.89), alcohol consumption (aOR = 4.06; 95% CI: 1.17, 14.07), and increased age (aOR = 1.06; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.11) were positively associated with malnutrition. An increased number of people living with the older person (aOR: 0.91; 95% CI: 0.85, 0.97) was a protective factor among those at risk for malnutrition. CONCLUSION: Both the prevalence of malnutrition and risk of malnutrition were commonly observed among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka. The associated factors identified in this study might help public health professionals to implement necessary interventions that improve the nutritional status of this population.
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spelling pubmed-61179362018-09-05 Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study Damayanthi, H. D. W. T. Moy, F. M. Abdullah, K. L. Dharmaratne, S. D. BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Malnutrition in older persons is a public health concern. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition and its associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Kandy district, Sri Lanka. The nutritional status of older persons was assessed using the Mini Nutritional Assessment –Short Form (MNA­SF). A standardised questionnaire was used to record factors associated with malnutrition: demographic characteristics, financial characteristics, food and appetite, lifestyle, psychological characteristics, physical characteristics, disease and care, oral health, and social factors. Complex sample multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed. RESULTS: Among the 999 participants included in the study, 748 (69.3%) were females and 251 (25.1%) were males. The mean age was 70.80 years (95% CI: 70.13, 71.47). The prevalence of malnutrition, risk of malnutrition and well-nutrition was 12.5%, 52.4% and 35.1% respectively. In the multivariate model, hypertension (adjusted OR = 1.71; 95% CI: 1.02, 2.89), alcohol consumption (aOR = 4.06; 95% CI: 1.17, 14.07), and increased age (aOR = 1.06; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.11) were positively associated with malnutrition. An increased number of people living with the older person (aOR: 0.91; 95% CI: 0.85, 0.97) was a protective factor among those at risk for malnutrition. CONCLUSION: Both the prevalence of malnutrition and risk of malnutrition were commonly observed among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka. The associated factors identified in this study might help public health professionals to implement necessary interventions that improve the nutritional status of this population. BioMed Central 2018-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6117936/ /pubmed/30165826 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0892-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Abdullah, K. L.
Dharmaratne, S. D.
Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study
title Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study
title_full Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study
title_short Prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study
title_sort prevalence of malnutrition and associated factors among community-dwelling older persons in sri lanka: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6117936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30165826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0892-2
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