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Patients tolerance of sipping in a hospital facility (quantity, product type, duration of administration, flavors)
MRAČNOVÁ, Karolína
The bachelor thesis entitled "Tolerance of sipping in patients in a hospital facility (amount, type of preparation, duration of administration, flavours)" is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The main objective of the bachelor thesis was to map the tolerance of sipping in patients in a hospital setting and to further assess the reasons why sipping is not tolerated in some patients. The theoretical part focuses on malnutrition, nutritional status examination, enteral nutrition and oral nutritional supplements. The practical part focused on mapping the tolerance of sipping in patients in the internal medicine and oncology wards. How well the respondents tolerated sipping in terms of duration of use, flavour, type of product and quantity was investigated. A quantitative method in the form of a self-constructed questionnaire was used for the study. The practical part includes the analysis of the questionnaire data and the analysis of the diets from several patients. The data obtained were processed using Microsoft Excel and Nutriservis Professional. From the analyzed data, it was found that approximately 1/3 of the respondents did not tolerate sipping well. These were mainly patients who had been taking the products for less than 7 days. Sipping was best tolerated by informants who were indicated to take 1-2 preparations per day. The majority of respondents had no favourite or disliked sipping flavours and therefore tolerability cannot be assessed regarding flavour. Among the respondents, the milk type preparation was the best tolerated. The most common reason for poor tolerance of sipping was its taste and, to a greater extent, indigestion. Not being able to try multiple types of preparations and flavours from different companies also had an impact on poorer tolerability for some respondents. In addition, inadequate temperature and lack of familiarity of patients with the principles of proper sipping use may have had a negative impact on tolerance of product administration.
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