Nutritional status and support in hospitalized patients with neurological diseases: a cross-sectional survey
2025-04-28
(Press-News.org) Background and objectives
Proper nutritional management has been shown to reduce complications and lead to better clinical outcomes. However, inaccurate nutritional screening and assessment, inappropriate nutrition support, and deviations from suggested guidelines were observed in clinical practice. We aimed to investigate the nutritional status and support of hospitalized patients with neurological diseases to identify deficiencies in nutritional assessment and treatment.
Methods
A self-designed questionnaire, developed through a literature review, group discussions, and expert consultation, was converted into an electronic form to conduct a cross-sectional survey in a tertiary-level general hospital. The patients’ basic information and the first nutrition assessment were filled out upon admission. The final nutrition assessment were logged at discharge, transfer out, or death. Two-person cross-entry was used to ensure the accuracy of data input.
Results
A total of 620 patients were enrolled in this study. Of these, 24.4% were at nutritional risk upon admission, and 22.7% were identified as at nutritional risk in the final assessment. There were no statistically significant differences in nutritional status between the first and final assessments, except for serum albumin concentration. A total of 118 patients (19.0%) received nutrition therapy. Complications occurred in 35 (45.5%) patients treated with enteral nutrition and 29 (30.5%) patients treated with parenteral nutrition.
Conclusions
The incidence of nutritional risk was less than 25% among hospitalized patients with neurological diseases in this study. Further nutritional assessments of patients at nutritional risk should be intensified to determine their accurate nutritional status and therapy needs. The nutritional intervention nursing in this study was not sufficiently standardized, and more emphasis should be placed on the nursing of tube feeding. Nurses are needed to receive relevant professional training to improve quality of nutritional interventions.
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The study was recently published in the Neurosurgical Subspecialties.
Neurosurgical Subspecialties (NSSS) is the official scientific journal of the Department of Neurosurgery at Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. NSSS aims to provide a forum for clinicians and scientists in the field, dedicated to publishing high-quality and peer-reviewed original research, reviews, opinions, commentaries, case reports, and letters across all neurosurgical subspecialties. These include but are not limited to traumatic brain injury, spinal and spinal cord neurosurgery, cerebrovascular disease, stereotactic radiosurgery, neuro-oncology, neurocritical care, neurosurgical nursing, neuroendoscopy, pediatric neurosurgery, peripheral neuropathy, and functional neurosurgery.
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