Nutritional Intakes in Burn Patients Treated as Outpatients

Evaluation of Macronutrients and Micronutrients Intakes in Burn Patients Treated as Outpatients

Nutrition is a key component of burn care. The primary goal of nutrition is to provide adequate supply in macro and micronutrients that are necessary to maintain organ function but also to wound healing, infection control and muscle preservation.

Studies about nutrition and burn care are mainly focused on severe burn patients. There is a few or no data regarding nutrition in minor burns. Those patients rarely receive a multidisciplinary approach, at least in Belgium.

The present study aimed to describe the nutritional condition of less severe burn patients treated as outpatients in a Belgian burn center. The ultimate goal was to determine whether this population needs specific dietetics follow-up or not.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Burns; Nutritional Deficiency
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Burn injury

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 51

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Liège, Belgium, 4000
    • University Hospital of Li§ge

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 1 year and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

All burn patients admitted in the outpatient clinic of the investigator's burn center for minor burns

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Burn treated exclusively in an outpatient clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not french speaking
• Psychiatric disorders
• Patient refusal

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
nutritional intakes	Using a standardized food questionnaire, mean daily nutritional intakes were calculated for each patient (macronutrients and micronutrients). Food questionnaire is a questionnaire created by our dietetics unit, aiming to quantify the amount of food eaten at each meal. Quantities of macronutrients and micronutrients at each meal were then calculated using tables of food content (Nubel for all nutrients, excepting vitamin E calculated according Ciqual table).	During the first week following injury

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Body composition	Body composition measured using bio impedance	During the first week following injury
Handgrip strength	Strength measured an handheld dynamometer	During the first week following injury

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Liege

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 5, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): April 5, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 11, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 12, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): April 16, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 16, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 12, 2019
• Last Verified: April 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Wounds and Injuries; Nutrition Disorders; Burns; Malnutrition
• Other Study ID Numbers: ABA

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No