Education Intervention Has the Potential to Improve Short-Term Dietary Pattern among Older Adults with Undernutrition.

ABSTRACT: Low-cost educational interventions to improve dietary pattern is a pragmatic solution to prevent undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries. A prospective nutritional education intervention was conducted among older adults aged 60 years or above with undernutrition with 60 people in each intervention and control group. The objective was to develop and evaluate the efficacy of a community-based nutrition education intervention to improve the dietary pattern of older adults with undernutrition in Sri Lanka. The intervention consisted of two modules to improve the diversity, the variety of diet, and the serving sizes of food consumed. The primary outcome was the improvement of the Dietary Diversity Score (DDS) and the secondary outcomes were the Food Variety Score and Dietary Serving

SUBMITTER: Vijewardane SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10204358 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature