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Developing a consensus to support health and social care professionals and patients manage nutrition in the context of COVID-19 recovery.

Tronco Hernandez, Y. A., Julian, A., Weekes, E. C., Murphy, J., Frost, G. and Hickson, M., 2023. Developing a consensus to support health and social care professionals and patients manage nutrition in the context of COVID-19 recovery. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 36 (4), 1242-1252.

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DOI: 10.1111/jhn.13163

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The long-term effects on people who have had COVID-19 affect nutrition and can be influenced by diet conversely. Specific nutritional guidelines however were scarce at the beginning of 2020 and empirical literature was also lacking. Conventional research methodologies needed to be adapted to review the available literature that could be relevant to the UK and policy documents as well as collect the views of health and care staff. The aim of this paper is to describe the method to develop consensus statements from experts to address the necessary nutritional support and what emerged from this. METHODOLOGY: A Nominal Group technique was adapted to the virtual world, we purposefully selected a range of professionals (dietitians, nurses, occupational therapists among others) and patients with long term effects of COVID to present them with the most updated evidence and aim to reach key guidelines to address COVID-19 recovery. FINDINGS: We were able to reach consensus statements that were developed and reviewed by relevant healthcare staff at the front line to address the nutritional needs of patients recovering from COVID-19 and those suffering from its long term effects. This adapted Nominal Group Technique process led us understand that a virtual repository of concise guidelines and recommendations was needed. This was developed to be freely accessed by both patients recovering from COVID-19 and health professionals who manage them. CONCLUSIONS: We successfully obtained key consensus statements from the adapted Nominal Group Technique, which showed the need for the nutrition and COVID-19 knowledge hub. This hub has been developed, updated, reviewed, endorsed and improved across the subsequent two years. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0952-3871
Data available from BORDaR:https://doi.org/10.18746/bmth.data.00000373
Uncontrolled Keywords:Long COVID; Nominal group technique; Nutrition; nutritional guidelines
Group:Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
ID Code:38339
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:08 Mar 2023 10:12
Last Modified:23 May 2024 10:05

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