Introduction
Various types of interventions improve adherence to recommendations on nutritional intake. Good nutritional intake has been determined as one of the main cornerstones in the management and prevention of chronic illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. Nowadays, there is increasing recognition of the failure to use the findings of research in clinical practice. This means that the efforts made in knowledge translation have to put a priority on effective interventions that relate to medical practitioners and end-users by using the local context for its adaptation.
Article Search
Lindner-Rabl et al. (2022) discuss the various clinical interventions aimed at enhancing the nutritional care in older adults as well as parents in primary health care. The article’s method of using the inclusion criteria develops a research question that focuses on geriatric patients and nutritional care and makes a comparison with patients who receive no nutritional care. Sauer et al. (2018) assess the effect of nutrition intervention on health and nutrition effects within the community, especially for dwelling adults. The method used in the article is the search strategy where the authors have done comprehensive literature research on the issue and compared it based on the eligibility criteria. The outcomes of health and nutrition included functional and nutritional status, anthropometrics, mortality, muscle strength, energy intake, and morbidity.
Article Findings
The article, Clinical Interventions to Improve Nutritional Care in Older Adults and Patients in Primary Healthcare – A Scoping Review of Current Practices of Health Care Practitioners, suggests that the results reveal that nutritional interventions including comprehensive geriatric interventions, a dietician, or a joint intervention of dietary monitoring and caregiver training show significant improvement. The type of research used in the article by the authors is the inclusion criteria where various publications were assessed and had to align with the PICO criteria. The interventions that address malnutrition and its impact on the health of geriatric patients include e-health interventions, targeted single intervention on a micro level, and comprehensive interventions (Lindner-Rabl, 2022). This article is important because it sheds a light on various interventions that are useful in nutritional care. In the article, Assessing the impact of nutrition interventions on health and nutrition outcomes of community-dwelling adults: a systematic review, the authors assess the existing evidence on nutritional interventions. The type of research conducted uses the systematic review based on PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). Nutrition interventions help to enhance nutrition and health results among older adults (Sauer, 2018). This article was chosen because it can help in informing the making of nutrition-focused intervention plans which can be used to enhance health results for older adults.
Evidence for Practice
Lindner-Rabl et al. (2022) suggest that the interventions that address malnutrition and impact on the health of geriatric patients include e-health interventions, targeted single intervention on a micro level, and comprehensive interventions. Interventions that combine nutritious meals and an application used to self-monitor health prove to improve nutritional and health outcomes. E-health can improve the nursing practice since it will allow for easy sharing of electronic information with other clinicians and patients. Another evidence is targeted single intervention on a micro-level. In this intervention, dieticians act as case managers (Lindner-Rabl, 2022). This type of intervention works and leads to significant improvements. For practitioners, it is easy to follow up targeted single intervention which leads to positive outcomes. Comprehensive interventions also lead to positive nutritional outcomes. They comprise all aspects that promote well-being such as physical, medical, and nutritional interventions.
Sharing of Evidence
This type of information would be shared with leaders in the medical arena such as nurse leaders and chief doctors to see positive changes. Moreover, the information can be shared with geriatric patients and patients experiencing primary care. This information would be shared through medical seminars or electronically through media campaigns where interventions to improve nutritional health. To accomplish this sharing of evidence, it would be better if all stakeholders facilitated the sharing of information. Moreover, community leaders would be quite helpful in relaying information to older people in the community. It would be important to share this information with the nursing profession because they are the ones who are mostly in direct contact with patients in the community.
Conclusion
All in all, nutritional interventions improve adherence to recommendations on nutritional intake, especially in geriatric patients. These nutritional interventions include eHealth, comprehensive interventions, and targeted single intervention on a micro-level. Individuals in the nursing profession need to have a full understanding of these nutritional interventions since they directly treat and advise patients.
References
Lindner-Rabl, S., Wagner, V., Matijevic, A., Herzog, C., Lampl, C., Traub, J., & Roller-Wirnsberger, R. (2022). Clinical Interventions to Improve Nutritional Care in Older Adults and Patients in Primary Healthcare – A Scoping Review of Current Practices of Health Care Practitioners. Clinical Interventions in Aging, Volume 17, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.2147/cia.s343307
Sauer, A. C., Li, J., Partridge, J., & Sulo, S. (2018). Assessing the impact of nutrition interventions on health and nutrition outcomes of community-dwelling adults: a systematic review. Nutrition and Dietary Supplements, Volume 10, 45–57. https://doi.org/10.2147/nds.s177248
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