Quality of life and nutritional status of cancer patients on chemotherapy

Abstract

Background: Cancer is the second cause of disease-related deaths worldwide. Malnutrition among cancer patients is very common, with an estimated incidence of approximately 40 to 80%. While it is already a proven fact that malnutrition is prevalent among cancer patients, its impact on the quality of life of patients has not been adequately studied, particularly in the local setting. Purpose: To assess quality of life, nutrition status and to determine the affects of nutrition status on quality of life of cancer patients treated chemotherapy at Oncology Department, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital. Methods: A cross sectional study with 70 cancer patients admitted for chemotherapy recruited from at oncology department, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital during March to September 2018. The EORTC QLQ-C30 were used to assess quality of life and Subjective Global Assessment scale were used to assess nutrition status. T-test, ANOVA, Mann Whitney, Kruskal Wallis were used to determine the correlation between 2 factors. Pearson and Spearman Coefficient were used to measure the strength of relationship between the factors. Results: Patient’s mean age was 58.93 ± 13.26, males were 61.3%. There were 67.14% patients with SGA A, 14.29% were classified SGA-B (moderately malnourished) and 18.57% were classified SGA C (severely malnourished). The global health scale, the functional scales were in the limit of the EORTC reference value, meanwhile the toxicities -related symptom scales were worse than the EORTC reference value. Patients were statistically different across the Subjective Global Assessment groups according to emotional (p < 0.05), and cognitive functioning (p < 0.05) nausea and vomiting (p < 0.05). Conclusions: This study showed that there were the effects of nutrition status on quality of life in patients treated chemotherapy. Key words: Quality of life, nutritional status, cancer, chemotherapy

Nutritional status and feeding regimen of critically ill patients in General Hospital of Agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam

“…This result had a similarity to the studies of Qiao Sun (87.62%) and Nguyen Thi Trang (87%), but higher than Javid (41,0%) and Shpata (62.6%) (Javid Mishamandani et al, 2019; Nguyen, 2018; Qiao et al, 2020; Shpata et al, 2015). In contrast, our result was different from Nguyen Phuong Thao's study showed the percentage was 100% of patients with nutritional risk by NRS2002 (Nguyen, 2019).…”

“…By the seventh day, still over haft of patients had protein intake lower than 1.3 g/kg/day. This result was similar to Nguyen Phuong Thao's study carried out in Dong Da Hospital (Nguyen, 2019). Several patients received very high doses of protein (>2 g/kg/day) due to these patients being stage III and IV pressure ulcers or major burned patients.…”

“…The average score was 2.9 ± 1.4. This rate was much lower than the results of Nguyen Huu Hoan (27%), Ta Thanh Nga (83,7%), Nguyen Thi Trang (42%), and Nguyen Phuong Thao (50%) (Nguyen, 2016(Nguyen, , 2018(Nguyen, , 2019Ta, 2017). This difference is probably explained by the characteristics of the patients included in our cohort, as our hospital admits patients with lower severity than central hospital.…”