title: A Swedish version of the SCREEN II for malnutrition assessment among community-dwelling elderly.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Seniors in the Community: Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition II (SCREEN II) Questionnaire assesses nutritional risk among elderly people living at home. Our aim was to produce a Swedish language version of the SCREEN II and to examine response patterns, data completeness and the relationship between malnutrition and general health.
  
  
  METHODS
  The SCREEN II was translated into Swedish using dual panel methodology, and then followed up with field test interviews of 24 seniors (median age, 83 years). We used the survey data (n = 565) to assess item and score distribution, missing responses, and the relationship to the subject's general and nutritional health.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Swedish SCREEN II was considered easy to understand, respond to, and relevant (n = 21; 88% of subjects found it so in all three respects) and its median completion time was 5 minutes. The level of survey item data completeness was 94-99%, and 82% of surveys had computable total scores. Of those subjects with completed forms, 35% had no nutritional risk; 35% had moderate risk; and 30% were at high risk. The malnutrition risk increased with poorer perceived health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study results are similar to those using previous screen ii versions, indicating that the scale adaptation was successful and providing initial support for use of the Swedish SCREEN II questionnaire.
authors.affiliation: PRO-CARE Group, School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden Albert.Westergren@hkr.se.
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Westergren
authors.affiliation: PRO-CARE Group, School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden.
authors.forename: Atika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khalaf
authors.affiliation: PRO-CARE Group, School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hagell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D014175:Translating
keywords: SCREEN II; home-dwelling; malnutrition