Food intake is associated with verbal interactions between nursing home staff and residents with dementia: A secondary analysis of videotaped observations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nursing home residents with dementia commonly experience low food intake, leading to negative functional and nutritional consequences. While the importance of staff-resident (dyadic) interactions during mealtime is acknowledged, little research has examined the role of dyadic verbal interactions on food intake.

Objectives

This study aimed to examine the relationship between food intake and dyadic verbal interactions.

Methods

This study was a secondary analysis of 110 videotaped observations of mealtime care interactions among 25 residents with dementia and 29 staff (42 unique dyads) in 9 nursing homes. Staff positive utterances and resident positive and negative utterances (independent variables) and food intake (dependent variable) were coded from the vide

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540727 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature