Table 2 Studies conducted to determine the behavioural and environmental determinants (step 1)

Nurses’ perspectives

To explore nurses’ perspectives towards nutritional care for undernourished surgical patients

Purposive sample of outpatient clinic nurses and nursing assistants (N = 10)

Urology outpatient clinic

1 (10)

Anaesthesia outpatient clinic

4 (40)

Nursing assistants

5 (50)

Observation of nutritional care

To observe delivery of nutritional care during nursing consults at outpatient clinics

Consecutive consults (N = 341) at the anaesthesia outpatient clinic before a planned surgery in two hospitals

Academic Hospital

48 (14)

General Hospital

293(86)

Female

201 (59)

Age (mean/SD)

55.3 (15)

MUST^a score 0^b

295 (88)

MUST^a score 1

24 (7)

MUST^a score 2

16 (5)

Survey

To evaluate patients’ satisfaction with general and nutritional care received during the outpatient clinic visit

Patients (N = 301) at anaesthesia outpatient clinic for preoperative screening

Female

156 (60)

Age (mean/SD)

54 (16)

MUST^a score 0^c

236 (91)

MUST^a score 1

14 (5)

MUST^a score 2

9 (4)

Patients’ perspectives

To explore patients’ perspectives towards undernutrition and satisfaction with nutritional care

Patients (N = 11) from an academic hospital

Female

7 (64)

Age (mean/SD)

55.7 (19.6)

MUST^a score 1

8 (73)

MUST^a score 2

3 (27)