Background: Malnutrition is commonly found in hospitalized patients, including chronic kidney disease patients. Malnutrition in chronic disease could bring worse outcome. Screening tool is needed to help assessing the risk of patient are malnourished or not. Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) is considered a quick and easy tools. This study aims to determine the comparison between MST scores and malnutrition condition based on objective examination.
Method: This research used comparison, retrospective, and cross-sectional design using the data from medical record of 96 Chronic Kidney Disease’s hospitalized patient at Atma Jaya Hospital. Data from MST, Body Mass Index (BMI), Hemoglobin (Hb), and Total Lymphocyte Count (TLC) were collected to be analyzed using 2x2 table with McNemar calculation to find the p value. Data were analyzed using SPSS 23.0
Result: Most of the respondents are women (53.1%), adult (59.4%), stage 5 CKD patients (78.1%), hemodialysis patients(65.6%), and have MST score <2 (78.1%). From the analyzed data were found the comparison between MST and BMI (p=0,001), TLC (p=0,001), Hb in men (p=0,774), and Hb in women (p=0,648).
Conclusions: From this research, it is found a significant comparison between MST scores and malnutrition condition based on BMI and TLC. Comparison between MST scores and malnutrition condition based on Hb in men and women were found insignificant. |