Developing a Nutrition Support Assessment Tool (NSAT)

March 28, 2025 updated by: Thomas Jefferson University

Developing and Testing a Nutrition Support Assessment Tool - An Implementation Trial

The research team developed the Nutrition Support Assessment Tool (NSAT) that incorporates key patient life information (e.g., ability to cook, access to refrigerator/stove, medical conditions and nutritional status) to facilitate individualized nutrition referral. The overall goal of this study is to refine and test the NSAT as a systematic approach to provide individualized nutrition needs screening and referral for patients being discharged from the acute care setting at Jefferson Health. The investigators hypothesize the NSAT will be successful in identifying individualized nutrition referrals that are deemed acceptable and appropriate by enrolled participants.

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

200

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Pennsylvania
      • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
        • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years of age or older
  • Currently admitted to Thomas Jefferson University or Methodist Hospital or Emergency Department
  • Has working phone number and is willing to participate in follow-up data collection
  • Eats by mouth
  • Lives in MANNA's geographic service area
  • Patient reports food insecurity or malnutrition using existing screening tools

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unwilling to provide consent
  • Unsheltered/unhoused
  • Lives in or is being discharged to facility that provides daily meals (e.g., long term care, incarcerated)
  • On hospice or has life expectancy of less than 4 months, per clinician
  • Not consentable
  • Deaf or has other major communication barriers that compromises ability to participate in study activities

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Other: Nutrition Intervention
Participants receive an individualized food provision and/or supplemental food support referral based on responses to the NSAT.
Other: Nutrition Interventions
Individualized food provision and/or supplemental referral based on participant's unique needs/responses to assessment (NSAT). Food provision interventions include medically tailored meals, home delivered prepared meals, grocery boxes, grocery delivery services, food pantries, and soup kitchens/meal sites. Supplemental interventions include SNAP benefit enrollment support, nutrition education, and cooking education.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Reach of Nutrition Interventions
Time Frame: Baseline
# and type of referrals made based on NSAT results
Baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Uptake of Nutrition Interventions
Time Frame: Week 1 & Week 4
# and type of referrals accepted and utilized by participants
Week 1 & Week 4
Acceptability of Nutrition Intervention
Time Frame: Week 1 & Week 4
Acceptability of nutrition interventions using the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM)
Week 1 & Week 4
Appropriateness of Nutrition Intervention
Time Frame: Week 1 & Week 4
Appropriateness of nutrition interventions using the Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM)
Week 1 & Week 4
Satisfaction with Nutrition Intervention
Time Frame: Week 4
Self-reported satisfaction with nutrition intervention using a research-team developed assessment.
Week 4

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Thomas Jefferson University

Collaborators

The MANNA Institute

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

May 21, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 12, 2024

Study Completion (Estimated)

April 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 23, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 6, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

June 10, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 2, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 28, 2025

Last Verified

June 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • iRISID-2022-1304

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

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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