Journal article
Factors influencing the pace of food intake for nursing home residents with dementia: Resident characteristics, staff mealtime assistance and environmental stimulation
Nursing Open, Vol.6(3), pp.772-782
03/06/2019
DOI: 10.1002/nop2.250
PMCID: PMC6650688
PMID: 31367399
Abstract
Aim: To examine the association of resident characteristics, staff mealtime assistance and environmental stimulation with the pace of food intake.
Design: A secondary analysis of 36 baseline eating videos involving 19 nursing assistants and 15 residents with dementia in eight nursing homes from a communication intervention study.
Methods: The outcome variable was the pace of food intake (the number of bites and drinks per minute). The exploratory variables were resident characteristics (age, gender, dementia stage and eating performance), staff mealtime assistance (frequency of verbal, visual, partial and full physical assistance) and environmental stimulation. Multi‐level models were used to examine the association.
Results: A faster pace of food intake is associated with being male, better eating performance, staff provision of visual and physical assistance and better quality of environmental stimulation that involved interaction. The pace of food intake was not associated with resident age, staff verbal assistance or partial physical assistance.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Factors influencing the pace of food intake for nursing home residents with dementia: Resident characteristics, staff mealtime assistance and environmental stimulation
- Creators
- Wen Liu - University of Iowa, NursingYing‐Ling Jao - University of Iowa, NursingKristine Williams - University of Iowa, Nursing
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nursing Open, Vol.6(3), pp.772-782
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/nop2.250
- PMID
- 31367399
- PMCID
- PMC6650688
- ISSN
- 2054-1058
- eISSN
- 2054-1058
- Copyright
- © 2019 The Authors
- Grant note
- Funding: NIH grant. Grant Number: NR011455‐04 The authors acknowledge that the parent study was supported by NIH grant NR011455‐04, Changing Talk to Reduce Resistiveness in Dementia Care, K. Williams, PI. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01324219. The sponsor was not involved in study design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of findings, and manuscript preparation.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/06/2019
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9983764595802771
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