MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT: USE AND OVERVIEW IN CARE SETTINGS FOR THE ELDERLY
The present study aimed to systematic review about the use of the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) in different care settings for the elderly. Researches were carried out in CAPES journal gateway, using the descriptors Mini Nutritional Assessment, elderly and Nutritional Status, in Portuguese...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Revista Saúde.com |
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| Online Access: | http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/ojs/index.php/rsc/article/view/426/416 |
| Summary: | The present study aimed to systematic review
about the use of the Mini Nutritional Assessment
(MNA) in different care settings for the elderly.
Researches were carried out in CAPES journal
gateway, using the descriptors Mini Nutritional
Assessment, elderly and Nutritional Status, in
Portuguese, English and Spanish, published
between the years 2005 and 2015. Six hundred
twenty-eight articles were identified and, during
screening and eligibility, 582 articles were
excluded, according to established criteria. After
these steps, 43 articles were selected for review.
Nineteen articles were identified with residents of
long-term care facilities for elderly people, eight
with elderly people in the community, 11 articles
with hospitalized elderly and five with elderly
people assessed in other places, which points to
the feasibility of using MNA in different settings.
It has been observed that malnutrition has still
been frequent and with higher prevalence in
hospitalized and institutionalized elderly people,
when compared to elderly in the community. In
this way, the Mini Nutritional Assessment is an
instrument widely used in different care settings,
being possible to observe that specific conditions
of each settings can interfere in the nutritional
status of the elderly |
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| ISSN: | 1809-0761 1809-0761 |