Self-screening as a tool for assessing the nutritional risk in hospitalized adults

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Glaucia Queiroz
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Calado, Cinthia Katiane Martins, Burgos, Maria Goretti Pessoa de Araújo, Araújo, Maria Lúcia Diniz, Cabral, Poliana Coelho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/32541
• topic: Nutrition Assessment; Nutritional Status; Malnutrition.; Evaluación nutricional; Estado nutricional; Desnutrición.; Avaliação nutricional; Estado nutricional; Desnutrição.

The present study aimed to assess the applicability of a nutritional self-screening tool in adults. This is a cross-sectional study, with male and females, admitted to a public hospital in Pernambuco. Nutritional self-screening was performed by eligible patients and by the researcher. The differences between the self-reported and measured weight and height were assessed by Wilcoxon’s test, with subsequent construction of the Bland & Altman graph. The chi-square test measured whether clinical and sociodemographic variables were associated with nutritional risk diagnosed by the researcher. The study included 171 patients, of which 59.1% were females, and mean age 51.7 ± 15.3 years. A considerable percentage (47.9%, n=82) could not screen themselves, mainly because of low education level and and advanced stage of the disease. The mean self-reported weight (68.4 ± 15.0 Kg) was similar to the weight measured (68.2 ± 15.1 kg). According to the Kappa coefficient, the two diagnoses had moderate agreement (k=0.62; p=0.001). The agreements between self-reported and measured weight and height were good, with a bias close to zero. It is concluded that the applicability of the self-screening instrument was not satisfactory, due to the low level of education and lack of understanding by the population studied.