Nutritional challenges of gastric cancer patients from the perspectives of patients, family caregivers, and health professionals: a qualitative study

Taleghani, Fariba; Ehsani, Maryam; Farzi, Sedigheh; Farzi, Saba; Adibi, Peyman; Moladoost, Azam; Shahriari, Mohsen; Tabakhan, Mahnaz

doi:10.1007/s00520-020-05951-7

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“… 30 Patients classified as nourished may also experience dietary symptoms that could affect their eating habits, which could further influence their quality of life. 31 Hence, patients should be routinely assessed for malnutrition and managed as necessary. We believe that PG-SGA can assist healthcare providers in assessing various physical symptoms experienced by patients that hindered food intake.…”

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Translation and validation of the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment against the Mini-Nutritional Assessment for patients with gastric cancer

Lee

Hyung

et al. 2023

Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Translation and validation of the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment against the Mini-Nutritional Assessment for patients with gastric cancer

Lee

Hyung

et al. 2023

Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing

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“…While our analysis indicated acceptable demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic diversity and reach among our general users without a history of cancer, the Cook for Your Life website also aims to support nutrition needs of patients with cancer and survivors as well as cancer caregivers. Previous studies have reported that both patients with cancer and their caregivers do not receive adequate nutrition education despite expressing a desire and need for more nutrition support and information [ 10 , 11 , 13 ]. One of Cook for Your Life’s goals is to be a nutrition resource for patients with cancer and caregivers of patients with cancer undergoing treatment.…”

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“…For cancer survivors, eating a nutritious diet may lower the risk of cancer recurrence and the development of other comorbid diseases, and may help to improve and maintain a high quality of life [ 6 , 7 ]. Patients with cancer and their caregivers have expressed the need to improve their nutrition knowledge, increase self-efficacy about optimal nutrition care, and have greater access to nutrition support [ 8 - 10 ]. Generally, most people are motivated to eat a nutritious diet to reduce the risk of developing many chronic diseases, including cancer, and to improve their overall health.…”

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Characteristics of Users of the Cook for Your Life Website, an Online Nutrition Resource for Persons Affected by Cancer: Descriptive Study

Rillamas‐Sun¹,

Schattenkerk²,

Cobos-Sanchez³

et al. 2022

JMIR Cancer

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Background Accessible nutrition resources tailored to patients with cancer, caregivers of cancer survivors, and people interested in cancer prevention are limited. Cook for Your Life is a bilingual (ie, English and Spanish) website providing science-based, nutrition information for people affected by cancer. Objective The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of Cook for Your Life website users. Methods In December 2020, Cook for Your Life website visitors at least 18 years old were invited to participate in an online English-language survey. A Spanish version was offered in April 2021. Demographic, health, and cooking characteristics were collected. Persons with a cancer history were asked about treatment and side effects. Data were analyzed through December 2021 on those completing over half of the survey. Three groups were compared: people with a history of cancer diagnosis, caregivers of cancer survivors, and the general public (ie, people without a cancer history). Website use data were also compared. Results Among English-language respondents, 3346 initiated the survey and 2665 (79.65%) completed over half of the questions. Of these, 54.82% (n=1461) had a cancer diagnosis, 8.26% (n=220) were caregivers, and 36.92% (n=984) were from the general public. English-language respondents were US residents (n=2054, 77.07%), with some from Europe (n=285, 10.69%) and Canada (n=170, 6.38%). Cancer survivors were most likely 55 years of age or older, female, non-Hispanic White, with incomes over US $100,000, and college educated. Caregivers and the general public were younger and more racially and geographically diverse. The most common cancer malignancies among English-language cancer survivors were breast (629/1394, 45.12%) and gastrointestinal (209/1394, 14.99%). For Spanish-language respondents, 942 initiated the survey; of these, 681 (72.3%) were analyzed. Of the 681 analyzed, 13.5% (n=92) were cancer survivors, 6.8% (n=46) were caregivers, and 79.7% (n=543) were from the general public. Spanish-language respondents were also more likely to be female and highly educated, but were younger, were from South or Latin America, and had incomes less than US $30,000. Among Spanish-language cancer survivors, breast cancer (27/81, 33%) and gastrointestinal cancer (15/81, 19%) were the most common diagnoses. Website use data on over 2.2 million users from December 2020 to December 2021 showed that 52.29% of traffic was in English and 43.44% was in Spanish. Compared to survey respondents, a higher proportion of website users were male, younger, and from South or Central America and Europe. Conclusions Cook for Your Life website users were demographically, socioeconomically, and geographically diverse, especially English-language respondents without a cancer history and all Spanish-language respondents. Improvements on website user diversity and reach for all patients with cancer and research on effective strategies for using this digital platform to support cancer prevention, treatment, and survivorship will continue. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04200482; https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04200482

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“…survived 326 GC patients perioperative nutrition knowledge and found that the awareness rate of general nutrition knowledge, professional nutrition knowledge was 78.5% and 17.5%, respectively [10]. Some studies have con rmed the nutritional problems faced by GC patients and their caregivers, including malnutrition, malabsorption, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, dysphagia, as well as anxiety, fear, and dissatisfaction caused by nutritional problems [26,28,29]. Ying et.al.…”

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The Analysis of Oral Nutrition Support Needs in Chinese Postoperative Gastric Cancer Patients: Based on Information From Internet

Tian

Qin

Zhu

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Purpose: The study aimed to explore oral nutrition support needs in Chinese gastric cancer patients after gastrectomy by analyzing patients question on the internet.Methods: We searched Baidu website for diet question relating to stomach cancer undergoing gastrectomy. Content analysis was used to analyze the data material, Natural language processing & information retrieval sharing platform was used to analyze the sentiment tendency and sentiment attributes of all questions.Results: A total of 1420 diet-related questions were posed during the time before discharge and after gastrectomy several years. About 83.87% of all questions were about what and how to eat after gastric cancer. The results of emotional orientation of oral nutrition problems in patients after gastrectomy was generally positive (positive vs negative score: 1758 VS –1531), but the emotional orientation of diet and symptom problems was generally negative (positive vs negative score: 256.5 VS –410). The oral nutritional requirement of gastric cancer patient included oral nutrition-related solutions provided by professional staff, dietary and prognosis information, food metabolism information, dietary information, oral nutritional supplements information, symptom support, nutrition monitor, psychological support, and exercise information. Conclusions: The dietary problems of patients with gastric cancer after surgery mainly involve how to eat, the causes of diet-related symptoms and treatment methods. Patients and their caregivers need professional person to support their nutrition need, and the nutrition need include dietary and prognosis information, food metabolism information, dietary information, oral nutritional supplements information, symptom support, nutrition monitor, psychological support, and exercise information. The study clarified the specific needs of oral nutrition for patients after gastric cancer surgery, laying a foundation for the formulation of intervention programs.

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Nutritional challenges of gastric cancer patients from the perspectives of patients, family caregivers, and health professionals: a qualitative study

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

Translation and validation of the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment against the Mini-Nutritional Assessment for patients with gastric cancer

Translation and validation of the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment against the Mini-Nutritional Assessment for patients with gastric cancer

Characteristics of Users of the Cook for Your Life Website, an Online Nutrition Resource for Persons Affected by Cancer: Descriptive Study

The Analysis of Oral Nutrition Support Needs in Chinese Postoperative Gastric Cancer Patients: Based on Information From Internet

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