Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Jul 2, 2019
Open Peer Review Period: Jul 2, 2019 - Jul 9, 2019
Date Accepted: Aug 13, 2019
Date Submitted to PubMed: Oct 4, 2019
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Prevalence of Malnutrition among Elderly People in Iran: A protocol for a Systematic Review
ABSTRACT
Background:
Malnutrition is occurred following a decrease or an imbalance in the absorption of energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals by collaboration of numerous factors. Thus, it has serious and life-threatening consequences. In order to plan for this issue, we need information on the burden of this problem.
Objective:
Thus, the aim is to determine the prevalence of malnutrition among elderly people in Iran.
Methods:
For this purpose, papers including original articles, reviews, theses, and conference proceedings on the prevalence of malnutrition among people aged 60 and older that have been published in national and international journals until September 2018 will be included without any language limitation. The following keywords along with their synonyms in Persian will be used in the literature search: malnutrition, elderly and Iran. At first, the screening process will be carried out based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Then, the full text of the remaining articles will be read carefully and eligible articles selected according to the objectives of the study. Next, the methodological quality of the selected papers will be reviewed and the required information extracted from those with acceptable quality. Finally, meta-analysis will be performed using the STATA software (version 14) when optimum criteria met. It should be noted that all stages of screening, selection, quality assessment of primary studies and data extraction will be performed by two reviewers independently.
Results:
This review is ongoing and will be finished at the end of 2019.
Conclusions:
It is targeted to provide comprehensive evidence about the prevalence of malnutrition among elderly people in Iran by doing this review. It can help the Iranian health managers and policymakers to make informed decisions for preventing the malnutrition and promoting the health status of elderly people. Clinical Trial: PROSPERO registration number CRD42018115358; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO
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