• Juliana Lammel Ricardi, Aline Marcadenti, Simone Perocchin de Souza, and Anelise Siviero Ribeiro.
• Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
• Nutr Hosp. 2013 Jul 1; 28 (4): 1357-60.

IntroductionMalnutrition is very common in hospitals and inpatients with prescription of oral nutritional supplementation have improvement of the nutritional status.ObjectivesTo detect the total acceptance rate and a possible association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status.MethodsA cross-sectional study was carried out among 398 inpatients. Fifteen types of supplements were analyzed and nutritional status was detected by Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). Rest-ingestion index (RI) was obtained and Modified Poisson's regression was used to detect associations between nutritional status and intake of nutritional supplements.ResultsThe prevalence of malnutrition was 43.7% and overall acceptance of supplements was around 75%. Industrialized supplements have better acceptance among well-nourished inpatients and patients who ate less than 80% of the supplement offered (industrialized or homemade) had higher risk for malnutrition (48%).ConclusionThere was an association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status, despite the good acceptance rate.Copyright © AULA MEDICA EDICIONES 2013. Published by AULA MEDICA. All rights reserved.

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