Reducing hydration-linked events in nursing home residents... including commentary by Godkin D

Janet C Mentes; Kennith Culp

doi:10.1177/1054773803252996

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Reducing hydration-linked events in nursing home residents... including commentary by Godkin D

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Reducing hydration-linked events in nursing home residents... including commentary by Godkin D

Janet C Mentes and Kennith Culp

Clinical nursing research, Vol.12(3), pp.210-228

08/01/2003

DOI: 10.1177/1054773803252996

PMID: 12918647

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Abstract

<p>The authors used a quasi-experimental treatment and control group design with 49 participants from four nursing homes to test the effectiveness of an 8-week hydration intervention in reducing hydration-linked events (HLEs). A Kaplan Meier survival curve with log rank test was calculated to determine incidence and time to occurrence of a HLE. Incidence of and time to a HLE did not differ between the treatment and control groups over an 8-week period (p > .05). However, treatment group participants were found to be more frail, more cognitively impaired and more at risk for acute confusion than the control group participants. Although there were no statistically significant differences between the groups, it is clinically significant that the frailer, more at-risk participants in the treatment group had a lower incidence of HLEs.</p>

Nursing

Urinalysis

Nursing Homes

Fluid-Electrolyte Balance -- In Old Age

Nursing Home Patients

Long Term Care

Gerontologic Nursing

Dehydration -- Prevention and Control -- In Old Age

Dehydration -- Complications -- In Old Age

Urinary Tract Infections -- Prevention and Control -- In Old Age

Respiratory Tract Infections -- Prevention and Control -- In Old Age

Quasi-Experimental Studies

Kaplan-Meier Estimator

Dehydration -- Risk Factors

Mann-Whitney U Test

Fluid Intake-Output Measures

Data Analysis Software

Geriatric Depression Scale

Psychological Tests

Iowa

Record Review

Geriatric Functional Assessment

Medical Records

Respiratory Tract Infections -- Epidemiology

Urinary Tract Infections -- Epidemiology

Convenience Sample

Purposive Sample

Nonparametric Statistics

Confusion -- Epidemiology

Depression

Descriptive Statistics

Sample Size

Nursing Interventions

Aged

80 and Over

Inpatients

Male

Funding Source

Female

Human

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Title: Subtitle: Reducing hydration-linked events in nursing home residents... including commentary by Godkin D
Creators: Janet C Mentes
Kennith Culp
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Clinical nursing research, Vol.12(3), pp.210-228
DOI: 10.1177/1054773803252996
PMID: 12918647
NLM abbreviation: Clin Nurs Res
ISSN: 1054-7738
Language: English
Date published: 08/01/2003
Academic Unit: Occupational and Environmental Health; Nursing
Record Identifier: 9983557102502771

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