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Assessing HRQoL of Patients with Home Enteral Nutrition Using NutriQoL® in the Spanish Healthcare Setting

Jose Antonio Irles-Rocamora
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Maria Nuria Virgili Casas
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Julia Álvarez-Hernández
,
Estefanía Jiménez Licera
,
Pilar Zarco Rodriguez
,
Eva M García Raimundo
,
Gloria Creus Costas
,
Luis Lizán
,
Mercedes Blanco Naveira
,
Miquel Layola Brías
Version 1 : Received: 9 October 2023 / Approved: 10 October 2023 / Online: 11 October 2023 (04:56:02 CEST)

How to cite: Irles-Rocamora, J.A.; Virgili Casas, M.N.; Álvarez-Hernández, J.; Jiménez Licera, E.; Zarco Rodriguez, P.; García Raimundo, E.M.; Creus Costas, G.; Lizán, L.; Blanco Naveira, M.; Layola Brías, M. Assessing HRQoL of Patients with Home Enteral Nutrition Using NutriQoL® in the Spanish Healthcare Setting. Preprints 2023, 2023100648. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0648.v1 Irles-Rocamora, J.A.; Virgili Casas, M.N.; Álvarez-Hernández, J.; Jiménez Licera, E.; Zarco Rodriguez, P.; García Raimundo, E.M.; Creus Costas, G.; Lizán, L.; Blanco Naveira, M.; Layola Brías, M. Assessing HRQoL of Patients with Home Enteral Nutrition Using NutriQoL® in the Spanish Healthcare Setting. Preprints 2023, 2023100648. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0648.v1

Abstract

Home enteral nutrition (HEN) is recommended for patients with nutritional requirements who can stay in the familiar environment. HEN guidelines recommend assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) to evaluate the effect of the treatment. NutriQoL® is a specific questionnaire developed to assess HRQoL in patients receiving HEN and validated in Spanish population. An observational, descriptive, and prospective study was carried out in two Spanish hospitals to describe the evolution of HRQoL, nutritional and health status in patients receiving HEN in routine clinical practice. Fifty-seven patients participated in the study, of whom 36 were followed-up after their inclusion. Most of them were at risk or moderate malnutrition (61.1%) or showed severe malnutrition (27.8%) at baseline. Patients with HEN showed an overall good HRQoL with a mean basal NutriQoL® score of 69.4, which increased to 74.3 after 12 months of follow-up; fifteen patients showed a clinically significant difference (≥4 points) after three months. The proportion of at-risk or severely malnourished patients decreased at the end of the follow-up period and, according to the physicians, their health status improved. Additionally, physicians considered useful the HRQoL evaluation in clinical practice. In conclusion, HRQoL is probably related to nutritional status improvement and, thus, should be considered for nutritional evaluation in clinical practice.

Keywords

malnutrition; home enteral nutrition; quality of life; NutriQoL®; nutritional status; health status

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Dietetics and Nutrition

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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