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Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires

BACKGROUND: Negative feelings, such as anxiety and depression, are common in patients with cancer. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of malnutrition and distress in cancer patients and to examine the relationship between them. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We did a cross-sectional study in West Chi...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Chenjing, Wang, Baoqing, Gao, Yuan, Ma, Xuelei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-5176-x
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Wang, Baoqing
Gao, Yuan
Ma, Xuelei
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Wang, Baoqing
Gao, Yuan
Ma, Xuelei
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description BACKGROUND: Negative feelings, such as anxiety and depression, are common in patients with cancer. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of malnutrition and distress in cancer patients and to examine the relationship between them. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We did a cross-sectional study in West China hospital, China, using adapted questionnaires derived from Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002) and Distress Thermometer (DT). We also focused on the factors associated with distress. RESULTS: We found that psychological distress in cancer patients was common, with 39.5% patients suffering from distress. The mean score of PG-SGA was 3.37 (0–6), and 39.1% patients had malnutrition when using 4 as a cut-off value. Meanwhile, the mean score of NRS2002 was 1.91 (0–11), and 25.8% patients presented with malnutrition when using 3 as the cut-off value. Higher scores of nutritional risks confirmed by PG-SGA (r = 0.148, p < 0.001) and NRS2002 (r = 0.142, p < 0.001) were significantly correlated with higher levels of psychological stress. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition was correlated with psychological stress in cancer patients. Early intervention in the mental problems and nutrition was meaningful, which could improve the psychological statuses of cancer patients. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12885-018-5176-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-62999722018-12-20 Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires Zhu, Chenjing Wang, Baoqing Gao, Yuan Ma, Xuelei BMC Cancer Research Article BACKGROUND: Negative feelings, such as anxiety and depression, are common in patients with cancer. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of malnutrition and distress in cancer patients and to examine the relationship between them. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We did a cross-sectional study in West China hospital, China, using adapted questionnaires derived from Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002) and Distress Thermometer (DT). We also focused on the factors associated with distress. RESULTS: We found that psychological distress in cancer patients was common, with 39.5% patients suffering from distress. The mean score of PG-SGA was 3.37 (0–6), and 39.1% patients had malnutrition when using 4 as a cut-off value. Meanwhile, the mean score of NRS2002 was 1.91 (0–11), and 25.8% patients presented with malnutrition when using 3 as the cut-off value. Higher scores of nutritional risks confirmed by PG-SGA (r = 0.148, p < 0.001) and NRS2002 (r = 0.142, p < 0.001) were significantly correlated with higher levels of psychological stress. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition was correlated with psychological stress in cancer patients. Early intervention in the mental problems and nutrition was meaningful, which could improve the psychological statuses of cancer patients. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12885-018-5176-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6299972/ /pubmed/30567507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-5176-x Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Zhu, Chenjing
Wang, Baoqing
Gao, Yuan
Ma, Xuelei
Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires
title Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires
title_full Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires
title_fullStr Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires
title_short Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires
title_sort prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with cancer using questionnaires
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-5176-x
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