Introduction
Reviewed from the health aspect, geriatric patient will experience decreasing level of
health. One of the illnesses is their conditions of malnutrition, that often ignored,
especially in inpatient geriatric patient, nutritional status in geriatric patient can be
assessed with Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) which is already validated.
Malnutrition may influence prolong inpatient in geriatric patient. This research
conducted to determine the relation between early Mini Nutritional Assessment and
length of stay among geriatric patient.
Methods
This study was conducted in April until June 2016. Samples of this study is
hospitalized geriatric patient (aged 60 years and older) in Ruang Rawat Inap
Penyakit Dalam in Atma Jaya Hospital Pluit. The exclusion criterias are patients
who go home at his own request and / or his family request, patients with critical ill
(example : patients in shock condition, coma, respiratory failure, epileptic status,
etc), patients died during hospitalization, patients with decreased or impaired
cognitive function. The length of hospitalized geriatric patient was collected with
medical record. Early MNA score was determined from MNA questionnaires
conducted 48 hours, since the patients are hospitalized. The data was collected
primarily and analyzed using chi-square correlation test with significance level of
p<0,05.
Result
The number of subject obtained by 39 peoples, mean age = 67 years old, the most
gender was male with total of 22 patients (56.4%). The average value of length of
stay is 3-8 days. Most of the subjects showed MNA score less than 17 points which
mean they were in malnutrition status. There is a relation between MNA score and
length of stay among geriatric patient (p=0,029).
Conclusion
There is correlation between early MNA score and length of stay among geriatric
patient which is statistically significant. |