Characteristics Associated with Relationship-Centred and Task-Focused Mealtime Practices in Older Adult Care Settings.

To assess care home and staff characteristics associated with task-focused (TF) and relationship-centred care (RCC) mealtime practices prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff working in Canadian and American care homes were invited to complete a 23-item online survey assessing their perceptions of mealtime care, with one item assessing 26 potential care practices from the Mealtime Relational Care Checklist (relationship-centred = 15; task-focused = 11) reported to occur in the home prior to the pandemic. Multivariate linear regression evaluated staff and care home characteristics associated with mealtime practices.

"Nobody But a Family Member Can Do It Quite the Same Way": Understanding the Meaning of Mealtimes to Residents and Families in Long-Term Care Homes During the Pandemic.

Background And Objectives: Meals in long-term care (LTC) are essential to residents not only for nutrition and their physical well-being but also for their social interactions supporting resident quality of life. This study aims to understand the mealtime experiences of residents and family care partners during the coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) pandemic when restrictions were put in place in LTC and retirement homes.

Research Design And Methods: Interpretive description analysis of qualitative interviews in LTC and retirement homes, with 17 family care partners and 4 residents.

User testing to modify the MyHealthyGut digital health application for inflammatory bowel disease.

Introduction: Inflammatory bowel disease, characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation, can be subcategorized into Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The treatment for these conditions is unique to each patient and may include lifestyle changes, pharmaceutical intervention, and surgery. Lifestyle changes, such as dietary intervention, are a cornerstone of inflammatory bowel disease symptom management.

Quality of life in postostomy surgery patients: A cross-sectional survey.

Background And Aim: Ostomy is a radical treatment that is sometimes required due to severe inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colorectal cancer (CRC), and so on. Around 8000 people in New Zealand live with stoma bags. We studied factors associated with poor quality of life (QoL) in ostomy patients to improve patient care.

Evaluation of lactulose, lactose, and fructose breath testing in clinical practice: A focus on methane.

Background And Aim: Breath testing (BT) is used to identify carbohydrate malabsorption and small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Measuring methane alongside hydrogen is advocated to reduce false-negative studies, but the variability of methane production is unknown. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of high methane production on hydrogen excretion after ingesting lactulose, fructose, or lactose.

Long-term irritable bowel syndrome symptom control with reintroduction of selected FODMAPs.

Aim: To investigate the long-term effect of dietary education on a low fermentable oligosaccharide, disaccharide and polyol (FODMAP) diet on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms and quality of life (QoL).

Methods: Participants with IBS (Rome III) were randomized to two groups. Group I commenced a low FODMAP diet at baseline.

"We are what our bacteria eat": The role of bacteria in personalizing nutrition therapy in gastrointestinal conditions.

The theme for the 2016 World Digestive Health Day is "Your Diet and Gut Health". The World Gastroenterology Organization thereby wishes to raise awareness of the relationship between what we eat and gastrointestinal symptoms. World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) is celebrated each year on May 29.