Table 2.
Nutritional assessments based on MNA‐SF (N = 677) in relation to planned and evaluated nursing interventions
| Variables | Total N = 677 | In men N = 193 | In women N = 484 | p‐valuesa comparisons between men and women | In persons with risk for malnutrition N = 395 | In persons without risk for malnutrition N = 282 | p‐valuesa comparisons between persons with and without risk | In men with risk for malnutrition | In women with risk for malnutrition | p‐valuesa comparisons between persons with and without risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N(%) | N(%) | N(%) | N(%) | N(%) | N(%) | N(%) | ||||
| Planned | .471 | .001 | .005 | |||||||
| Yes | 452 (66.8) | 133 (68.9) | 319 (65.9) | 328 (83.0) | 124 (44.0) | 92 (92.0) | 236 (80.0) | |||
| No | 225 (33.2) | 60 (31.1) | 165 (34.1) | 67 (17.0) | 158 (56.0) | 8 (8.0) | 59 (20.0) | |||
| Evaluated interventions: | .129 | .001 | .548 | |||||||
| Yes | 186 (27.5) | 45 (23.3) | 141 (29.1) | 141 (35.7) | 45 (16.0) | 33 (33.0) | 108 (36.6) | |||
| No | 491 (72.5) | 148 (76.7) | 343 (70.9) | 254 (64.3) | 237 (84.0) | 67 (67.0) | 187 (63.4) |
MNA‐SF, Mini Nutritional Assessment Short Form.
a
Chi‐Square test.