Implementation of a multicomponent telemonitoring intervention to improve nutritional status of community-dwelling older adults: a process evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study aimed to conduct a process evaluation of a multicomponent nutritional telemonitoring intervention implemented among Dutch community-dwelling older adults.

Design

A mixed-methods approach was employed, guided by the process evaluation framework of the Medical Research Council and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. The process indicators reach, dose, fidelity and acceptability were measured at several time points within the 6-month intervention among participants and/or nurses.

Setting

The intervention was implemented in the context of two care organisations in the Netherlands.

Subjects

In total, ninety-seven participants (average age 78 years) participated in the intervention and eight nurses were involved in impl

SUBMITTER: van Doorn-van Atten MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260451 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature