Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed at assessing the nutritional status among the elderly population and factors associated with malnutrition in the community setting in rural Nepal. RESULTS: Out of 339 participants, 24.8% (95% CI 20.21–29.30) fell into the normal nutritional status range; 49.6% (95% CI 44...

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Autores principales: Tamang, Man Kumar, Yadav, Uday Narayan, Hosseinzadeh, Hassan, Kafle, Bharat, Paudel, Girish, Khatiwada, Saroj, Sekaran, Varalakshmi Chandra
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6492417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4282-4
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author Tamang, Man Kumar
Yadav, Uday Narayan
Hosseinzadeh, Hassan
Kafle, Bharat
Paudel, Girish
Khatiwada, Saroj
Sekaran, Varalakshmi Chandra
author_facet Tamang, Man Kumar
Yadav, Uday Narayan
Hosseinzadeh, Hassan
Kafle, Bharat
Paudel, Girish
Khatiwada, Saroj
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description OBJECTIVES: This study aimed at assessing the nutritional status among the elderly population and factors associated with malnutrition in the community setting in rural Nepal. RESULTS: Out of 339 participants, 24.8% (95% CI 20.21–29.30) fell into the normal nutritional status range; 49.6% (95% CI 44.29–54.91) were at risk for malnutrition while 24.8% (95% CI 20.21–29.30) were in the malnourished range, based on Mini Nutritional Assessment scores. Our findings revealed that belonging to a Dalit community, being unemployed, having experience of any form of mistreatment, lack of physical exercise, experiencing problems with concentration in past 30 days and taking medication for more than one co-morbidity was significantly associated with the malnutrition status of the elderly.
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spelling pubmed-64924172019-05-08 Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study Tamang, Man Kumar Yadav, Uday Narayan Hosseinzadeh, Hassan Kafle, Bharat Paudel, Girish Khatiwada, Saroj Sekaran, Varalakshmi Chandra BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVES: This study aimed at assessing the nutritional status among the elderly population and factors associated with malnutrition in the community setting in rural Nepal. RESULTS: Out of 339 participants, 24.8% (95% CI 20.21–29.30) fell into the normal nutritional status range; 49.6% (95% CI 44.29–54.91) were at risk for malnutrition while 24.8% (95% CI 20.21–29.30) were in the malnourished range, based on Mini Nutritional Assessment scores. Our findings revealed that belonging to a Dalit community, being unemployed, having experience of any form of mistreatment, lack of physical exercise, experiencing problems with concentration in past 30 days and taking medication for more than one co-morbidity was significantly associated with the malnutrition status of the elderly. BioMed Central 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6492417/ /pubmed/31039794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4282-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis 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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Tamang, Man Kumar
Yadav, Uday Narayan
Hosseinzadeh, Hassan
Kafle, Bharat
Paudel, Girish
Khatiwada, Saroj
Sekaran, Varalakshmi Chandra
Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study
title Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study
title_full Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study
title_short Nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of Nepal: a cross-sectional study
title_sort nutritional assessment and factors associated with malnutrition among the elderly population of nepal: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6492417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4282-4
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