Table 4.
Dose of the PhysioDom HDIM intervention† components received by the intervention group
| Intervention component | Dose delivered by researchers or health-care professionals | Dose received by participant | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutritional telemonitoring | ||||
| Body weight | Weekly | Log data | ||
| Compliance: 70 % | ||||
| Questionnaire | ||||
| Compliance T1: 85·5 % (n 69) | ||||
| Compliance T2: 85·3 % (n 75) | ||||
| Steps | One week per month | Compliance: 37 % | ||
| Appetite, nutritional status, diet quality | 3 months after the start | Compliance: 100 % | ||
| Nutrition education | ||||
| Television messages | Three per week | T1 (n 69) | T2 (n 75) | |
| Reading television messages | ||||
| <Once/week (%) | 27·5 | 33·4 | ||
| Once/week (%) | 44·9 | 48·0 | ||
| >Once/week (%) | 27·5 | 18·7 | ||
| Log data | 37·2 % of messages were opened | |||
| Dietary advice letters | Two in total | n.e. | ||
| Newsletters | Three in total | n.e. | ||
| Follow-up by nurse | ||||
| No. of telephone calls to participants | Upon an alert from the telemonitoring measurement results | 44 (n 35, 36 % of study population) | ||
| No. of visits to participants | Upon an alert from the telemonitoring measurement results | 30 (n 12, 12 % of study population) | ||
| Average duration of telephone call/visit to participant | 27·5 min | |||
| Referral to dietitian | In case of undernutrition/high BMI | 5 (n 5) | ||
| Referral to general practitioner | In case of undernutrition/high BMI/high blood pressure | 9 (n 5) | ||
T1, 4·5 months after the start of the study; T2, 6 months after the start of the study; n.e., not evaluated.
†
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.