NCT03032237: ConsuMEER

Increase Protein Intake of Older Meal Service Clients With Readymade Protein-rich Meals and Foods

Completed NA Last updated 28 February 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Nutritional intervention - protein-rich in Malnutrition; Protein in 100 participants. Completed in 31 May 2017.

Timeline

4 April 2017

Primary endpoint
31 May 2017

31 May 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	HAN University of Applied Sciences
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	100
Start date	4 April 2017
Primary completion	31 May 2017
Estimated completion	31 May 2017
Sites	1 location across Netherlands

Drugs / interventions tested

• Nutritional intervention - protein-rich
• Nutritional intervention - standard

Conditions studied

• Malnutrition; Protein — all drugs for Malnutrition; Protein →
• Protein Malnutrition — all drugs for Protein Malnutrition →

Sponsor

HAN University of Applied Sciences

Who can join

65 and older, any sex, with Malnutrition; Protein or Protein Malnutrition. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Rationale: Undernutrition risk among community-dwelling older adults in developed countries is shown to be around 24%. Increasing protein intake is a strategy that is feasible as well as efficacious to reduce undernutrition in community-dwelling older adults. A promising strategy to increase protein intake among older adults, is to offer dietary solutions with normal foods that fit their current daily eating patterns. For this reason, home-delivered protein-rich readymade meals and protein-rich dairy products will be studied in this research.

Objective: The primary objective is to study the effectiveness of commercially available protein-rich readymade meals and protein-rich dairy products in increasing protein intake of older adults who use a meal-delivery service to a level of 1.2 g/kg bodyweight/d. Secondary objectives include: studying effects of these meals and dairy products on total daily energy intake. Further, studying the acceptance of and compliance to the meals and dairy products.

Study design: The study will be performed as a single-blind randomized, controlled, four-week trial in a real-life setting: in community-dwelling older adults' own homes.

Study population: The target group of this study are community-dwelling older adults who use a meal-delivery service.

Intervention: Both groups will receive readymade meals for each day during 4 weeks. They will also receive dairy products to freely consume during the intervention period. The intervention groups receives protein-rich meals and protein-rich dairy products, the control receives standard meals and food products.

Main study parameters/endpoints: Difference in daily protein intake between intervention and control group. Secondary parameters: energy intake and acceptance (liking).

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.