Mgr. Vít Blanař, RN, Ph.D.
e-mail: vit.blanar@upce.cz
phone: +420 466 037 737
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8077-8925
Web of Science Researcher ID: AAE-6206-2019
Scopus Author Identifier: 56168419400
ResearchGate Profile: Vít Blanař ResearchGate
Google Scholar Profile: Vít Blanař Google Scholar
Research Interests:
3. Medical and Health Sciences
30206 Otorhinolaryngology
30307 Nursing / 30308 Nutrition, Dietetics
Research Background:
Vít Blanař´s scientific and creative focus originally stems from the fields of nursing and otorhinolaryngology, within which he focused on researching hearing disorders in patients working in noise for long periods during his PhD studies (PhD 2017). Since 2016, he has been teaching in Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and conducting research in nursing at the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice. At the same time, he works at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of Pardubice Hospital, Hospital of Pardubice Region a.s.
His research focuses on nursing care, often in conjunction with the field of otorhinolaryngology. In this area, he focuses on swallowing disorders, nutritional disorders in nursing care and on hearing screening of newborns using otoacoustic emissions or automated auditory brainstem potentials, communication difficulties and quality of life of people with hearing impairment and the quality of nursing care.
Vít Blanař is currently a member of a scientific team working on improving nutritional care in nursing. His primary focus is on the possibilities of early diagnosis of energy or protein-energy malnutrition, evaluation of nursing interventions in the context of nutritional care and assessment of nurses' and non-medical health workers' knowledge about malnutrition. New research directions include linking the nutritional assessment of geriatric patients with taste testing using taste foils developed by another research team at the FHS UPCE and nutritional assessment in specific patient groups. Changes in taste have been demonstrated in geriatric inpatients, which may be related to reduced food intake or an undesirable preference for certain foods. This fact opens up new research directions concerning food modification about patients' taste preferences.
International Cooperation:
Dr. Doris Eglseer, MSc., BBSc., Department of Nursing Science, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Dr. Silvia Bauer, MSc, BSc., Department of Nursing Science, Medical University of Graz, Austria
PhDr. Katarína Zrubáková PhD., Faculty of Health, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Projects:
Programme: KEGA (2023-2024) Nutrition and physical activity as basal pillars of care for patients at risk. (co-investigator)
Programme: AKTION (2023) Taste changes in the elderly and their association with malnutrition.
Programme: TACR GAMA 2 (2021-2022) Taste testing during the COVID pandemic using telemedicine.
Published Outcomes:
BLANAR, Vit; POSPICHAL, Jan; EGLSEER, Doris; GROFOVÁ, Zuzana Kala a BAUER, Silvia, 2024. Evaluation of Malnutrition Knowledge among Nursing Staff in the Czech Republic: A Cross-Sectional Psychometric Study. Online. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. S. 1-10. ISSN 1040-1334. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2024.2331234.
BAUER, Silvia; POSPICHAL, Jan; HUPPERTZ, Viviënne; BLANAR, Vit; SAKA, Bulent et al., 2023. Malnutrition knowledge among nursing staff in four European countries: A cross-sectional study. Online. Nurse Education Today. Roč. 128. ISSN 02606917. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105887.
CHRÁSTECKÁ, Marie; BLANAŘ, Vít a POSPÍCHAL, Jan, 2023. Risk of malnutrition assessment in hospitalised adults: A scoping review of existing instruments. Online. Journal of Clinical Nursing. Roč. 32, č. 13-14, s. 3397-3411. ISSN 0962-1067. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16470.
BLANAŘ, Vít; EGLSEER, Doris; LOHRMANN, Christa a HÖDL, Manuela, 2020. Changes in the availability of clinical practice guidelines for malnutrition: A 6-y multicenter study. Online. Nutrition. Roč. 71. ISSN 08999007. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2019.110617.
BLANAŘ, Vít; HÖDL, Manuela; LOHRMANN, Christa; AMIR, Yufitriana a EGLSEER, Doris, 2019. Dysphagia and factors associated with malnutrition risk: A 5‐year multicentre study. Online. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Roč. 75, č. 12, s. 3566-3576. ISSN 0309-2402. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14188.
Awards Received:
2019 - Most downloaded article in 12 months. The article "Association between incontinence, incontinence-associated dermatitis and pressure injuries: A multisite study among hospitalised patients 65 years or older" in the Australasian Journal of Dermatology published by Wiley.
A complete list of publications and projects can be found on Vít Blanař´s profile on UPCE.CZ.
