Table 3.
Reach of the PhysioDom HDIM intervention† in terms of baseline characteristics of the total group of participants, participants who completed the study and participants who dropped out
| Total (n 97) | Completers (n 76) | Dropouts (n 21) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | P value | |
| Age (years) | 78·4 | 7·2 | 77·3 | 7·2 | 82·3 | 6·1 | <0·01 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 29·2 | 4·5 | 29·0 | 4·1 | 29·6 | 5·9 | 0·66 |
| Number of diagnoses | 1·5 | 1·5 | 1·7 | 1·6 | 1·0 | 1·1 | 0·06 |
| MMSE score‡ | 28·6 | 1·5 | 29·0 | 1·2 | 27·2 | 1·9 | <0·001 |
| SPPB score‡ | 7·2 | 3·1 | 7·6 | 2·9 | 5·4 | 3·2 | <0·01 |
| Katz-15 score§ | 2·1 | 2·7 | 1·9 | 2·6 | 3·2 | 2·8 | 0·07 |
| % | % | % | |||||
| Sex (male) | 34·0 | 31·6 | 42·9 | 0·33 | |||
| Education level║ | 0·56 | ||||||
| Low | 17·5 | 18·4 | 14·3 | ||||
| Intermediate | 55·7 | 52·6 | 66·7 | ||||
| High | 26·8 | 28·9 | 19·0 | ||||
| Living alone | 55·7 | 59·2 | 42·9 | 0·22 | |||
| Desire to lose weight§ | 52·7 | 53·3 | 50·0 | 1·0 | |||
| Currently on a diet§ | 9·7 | 9·3 | 11·1 | 1·0 | |||
| Nutritional status‡ | 0·81 | ||||||
| Normal nutritional status | 79·2 | 77·6 | 85·0 | ||||
| At risk of undernutrition | 19·8 | 21·1 | 15·0 | ||||
| Undernourished | 1·0 | 1·3 | 0·0 | ||||
| Type of care (more than one type per participant possible) | |||||||
| Domestic care | 78·4 | 76·3 | 85·7 | 0·55 | |||
| Personal care | 32·0 | 25·0 | 57·1 | <0·01 | |||
| Nursing care | 9·3 | 5·3 | 23·8 | 0·02 | |||
| Individual support | 3·1 | 2·6 | 4·8 | 0·52 | |||
| Informal care | 32·0 | 32·9 | 28·6 | 0·80 | |||
MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; SPPB, Short Physical Performance Battery.
†
The PhysioDom Home Dietary Intake Monitoring (HDIM) intervention consisted of telemonitoring, nutrition education and follow-up by a nurse, implemented in a health-care setting among Dutch community-dwelling older adults from April 2016 to June 2017.
‡
One missing value.
§
Four missing values.
║
Low education level: primary school or less; intermediate level of education: secondary professional education or vocational school; high education level: higher vocational education, university.