Prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among patients undergoing surgery at Saint Peter Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,2023

Prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among patients undergoing surgery at Saint Peter Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,2023 | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among patients undergoing surgery at Saint Peter Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,2023 Robel Gemechu Haile, Abel Teklit Haile, Abel Worku Habtewolde, and 4 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4103358/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Background: Malnutrition is an imbalance between food intake and needs. It is a clinical condition with multifactorial etiology, resulting in several disorders like immune suppression, increased susceptibility to infections, increased drug intolerance, and death. Objective : To assess the prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among patients undergoing surgery at Saint Peter Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2023. Methods: an institution based cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition among adult patients undergoing surgery Results: During the preoperative period, the study found that 12.5% of patients were undernourished, while 30% were overnourished. Following surgery, the prevalence of undernutrition decreased to 10%, while overnutrition remained high at 29.2%. Furthermore, a statistically significant difference in hospital length of stay was observed between patients with normal nutritional status and those with undernutrition postoperatively. The mean difference between these groups was 2.65812 (95% CI = -3.07882 to -2.23742), with a p-value of less than .001. Specifically, patients with normal nutritional status had an average stay of less than 2.66 days longer than those with undernutrition. malnutrition nutritional status surgical patients surgical stress nutrition and surgery Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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