The Spanish Malnutrition Awareness Week 2022

Objectives

The main objective has been to raise awareness among health professionals, patients, and policymakers about the importance of optimal nutritional care in cancer patients.

Partners

Másnutridos Alliance is made up of 16 member entities, which have participated in DRM Week {Desnutrición Relacionada con la Enfermedad (DRE)}. 

• Spanish Association of Surgeons. 
• Spanish Association of Hospitality Industry. 
• General Council of the Official Associations of Pharmacists. 
• General Nursing Council. 
• Spanish Group of Multimodal Rehabilitation. 
• Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition. 
• Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology. 
• Spanish Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
• Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians. 
• Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine. 
• Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians. 
• Spanish Society of Internal Medicine. 
• Spanish Society of Radiation Oncology. 
• Spanish Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. 
• Abbott Foundation.
• Platform of patient organisations.

Activities

Webinar: Nutritional care: access and right of the patient.

The webinar was moderated by Dr. Miguel Ángel Martínez Olmos and participating speakers were; Dr. Diana Cárdenas, who addressed the advances in clinical nutrition as a patient’s right, Dr. Esther Carmona, who explained the legislative proposals on clinical nutrition, Dr. Álvarez, who spoke about equity in access, and D. Manuel Arellano, who conveyed the patient’s vision in relation to clinical nutrition.

Social media campaign and update of the Alliance’s website

_Twitter: During November 21-28, content about the DRM has been shared from the profile of @SDLD2022. An informative document on the campaign was prepared and sent to patient associations, colleges of dieticians and nutritionists, and the regional societies concerned with nutrition.

Website:

Information from the Twitter campaign and webinar that were updated by the Alliance.

alianzamasnutridos.es/news/semana-desnutricion

alianzamasnutridos.es/news/Webinar

alianzamasnutridos.es/news/webinar-cuidado-nutricional/

Web impression and press coverage

Webinar 28/11/2022

• Nº Registered to the Webinar: 191
• Nº of attendees: 92
• Nº of visualizations of the Webinar On demand: 64

Campaña de Twitter:

• Nº of Tweets: 37
• Tweets Impressions: 30.800
• Visits to the profile @SDLD2022: 3.452

Press release:

• Impact in the press Webinar: 4
• Specialized media in health: Infosalus, IM Medico, N3WS tercera edad, ANIS

Activities planned for 2023

The implementation of #SDLD2023 has been already planned within the activities of másnutridos Alliance.

We would like to continue developing the same type of activities and, by planning them in advance, it will be possible to prepare informative documentation and videos that reinforce the campaign.