Desnutrición intrahospitalaria: ELAN - ECUADOR. Hospital Provincial Puyo. Área 2. Provincia de Pastaza. 2011.

Abstract

Hospital Malnutrition: ELAN-ECUADOR Hospital of Puyo Area 2, Pastaza province. 201. 1The study was performed in a cross type method. The participants were 108 patients over 18 years old who had a hospital stay longer than 24 hours with an open medical history and diagnosis defined. They gave their verbal consent to participate in this study. Two surveys were used: Hospital Nutrition and the Subjective Global Assessment survey. For data analysis, the JMP statistical software version 5.1 was used. Analysis in a single variable was considered to obtain the percentage of tendency and dispersion values. The parameters as the multi variable, Chi square, Student t and ANOVA were calculated. The results of the malnutrition prevalence were 30.6% of which 28.7% were detected as moderately malnourished and 1.9% severely malnourished. The mean age was 42 years old. 56.5% were males and 53.7% came from popular strata. 50.0% had primary education. The nutritional quality of care was 98.3%. The causes for patient’s admission in the hospital were due digestive diseases in the order of 39.8%. Statistical relevant relationship between hospital malnutrition, hospital length of stay and underlying disease was found (p 0.05). It was concluded that the nutritional status of patients was associated with their length of hospital stay and their underlying disease, because the value of p in the respective test was less than 0.05. Nutritional screening on patients is recommended to carry out by the local health staff. This procedure will provide tools to detect malnutrition. Besides, a nutritional management response can be done in order to prevent further patient´s complications.