P527 - TELENUTRITION AS PART OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE IS FEASIBLE IN ADULTS WITH LONG COVID

P527

TELENUTRITION AS PART OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE IS FEASIBLE IN ADULTS WITH LONG COVID

B. G. Jimenez Garcia^1,2,3,*, S. Bomans^1,2,3, L. Leemans^1,2,3, S. Roggeman⁴, D. Beckwée³, E. De Waele^1,2

¹Clinical Nutrition, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), ²Metabolism and Nutrition Research Unit, Vitality Research Group, ³Rehabilitation Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), ⁴Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Brussels, Belgium

Rationale: Individuals with long COVID (LC) have expressed the need for organised multidisciplinary care, including telemedicine, to manage their condition¹. Here we describe the feasibility of online nutritional counselling as part of a multidisciplinary approach for individuals with LC.

Methods: In a single centre randomised controlled pilot trial (NCT05254301), participants received either a personalised multimodal therapy (PMT) (i.e., personalised nutritional counselling and physiotherapy) or standard physiotherapy for 12 weeks. Within the PMT, participants received weekly teleconsultations with a dietitian. Adherence (= (the number of teleconsultations that were carried out)/(number of planned consultations) x100), was used to assess the feasibility. Data is shown as mean ± standard deviation.

Results: Participants in the PMT group (n = 32, ge 43 ± 11 years, 65.6% female) attended 10 ± 4 teleconsultations with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 13 consultations, which is more than the predefined 12 sessions. Of the total PMT group, 28 completed the intervention period. These participants had on average 11 ± 3 teleconsultations. Average adherence was 83 ± 28 % for all PMT participants and 89 ± 22 % for the PMT participants that reached the end of the intervention. However, in the participants who had an early trial termination (n=4), the adherence was 45 ± 39 %. Additionally, there were some participants with a particularly low adherence: one participant only attended 1 out of 12 consultations, and one had 4 out of 12.

Conclusion: These results show a high feasibility for the weekly teleconsultations. The facilitators and barriers for the PMT intervention should be evaluated, in both the participants who completed and did not complete the intervention. Future studies should explore long-term effectiveness and integration into multidisciplinary care models.

References: 1. Gamillscheg P, et al. (2024) Int J Equity Health.

Disclosure of Interest: None declared