Table 3.
Nursing care aspects of the total group and stratified according to nursing home size [%]
| Nursing home size |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing care | Total (n=541) | Small (n=94) | Medium (n=291) | Large (n=156) | p |
| Feeding Assistance | |||||
| Availability of special feeding devices | 88.2 | 86.2 | 90.0 | 85.9 | 0.349 |
| Support for eating-dependent residents if necessary | 98.0 | 100.0 | 97.9 | 96.8 | 0.220 |
| Nutritional Services | |||||
| Request of residents’ wishes and portion sizes | 98.9 | 98.9 | 100.0 | 96.8 | 0.009 |
| Dietetic counseling service available | 74.5 | 69.1 | 74.6 | 77.6 | 0.335 |
| Routine assessment of personal nutrition history | 67.7 | 67.0 | 65.5 | 71.8 | 0.325 |
| missing | 3.5 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 3.8 | |
| Malnutrition Screening | |||||
| Malnutrition screening > 4-6 times a year | 79.9 | 76.6 | 80.1 | 81.4 | 0.285 |
| missing |
5.0 |
4.3 |
4.1 |
7.1 |
|
Differences between small, medium and large nursing homes were tested with Chi2-test