scholarly journals Nutrition Care Processes Can Improve the Nutritional Status and Quality of Life of Persons Who Use Drugs (PWUDs)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa ◽  
Frances Pola Santos Arias ◽  
James Andrei Justin Pascual Sy ◽  
Ren Annaliz Pabustan Garingo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
Nutrition Care Process ◽  
Persons Who Use Drugs

: Addiction affects the economy of countries worldwide. Nutrition plays an important role in helping persons who use drugs (PWUDs) to regain their physical and mental health, thereby increasing the probability of recovery. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of implementing the nutrition care process on PWUDs management 120 days after its implementation. Following a quasi-experimental design with pre and post-test evaluations, 268 PWUDs admitted to 8 drug treatment, and rehabilitation centers in the Philippines were recruited. Developed nutrition management guidelines containing the nutrition care process and cycle menu of calculated diet for PWUDs were provided for implementation in the rehabilitation regimen. Body mass index was used to assess nutritional status, dietary diversity score (DDS) to measure diet quality, WHO quality of life-BREF to assess the quality of life (QoL), Kessler-10 Psychological Distress Scale to determine psychological distress, and Beck’s depression inventory to assess stress level. The results indicated a 92% reduction in underweight during the study period. Participants with high DDS significantly increased from 38.43 to 91.04%. All domains of the QoL were improved, the level of severe depression was significantly decreased (6.72 to 4.48%), and decrease in the proportion of participants experiencing moderate (18.3 to 12.7%) and severe psychological distress (4.48 to 3.73%) was observed. There was no significant association between DDS and the three psychological parameters. The implementation of the nutrition care process and the recovery diets is feasible and could improve the nutritional status, QoL, and stress level of PWUDs.

Dietary Counselling Using Nutrition Care Process Pathway in Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy and/or Radiotherapy Improves Nutritional Status, Quality of Life and Patient Experience Compared with Standard Practice - A Randomized Controlled Single Cen

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
N. G. Krishna Priya ◽  
Shalini Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Standard Practice ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
Dietary Counselling ◽  
Nutrition Care Process

<p>To determine the impact of Intensive Dietary Counselling (IDC) using Nutrition Care Process (NCP) pathway compared with standard practice (general nutrition advice of foods taken ad libitum) on nutritional status and Quality of Life (QoL) in patients receiving chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. The patient satisfaction with the IDC model was assessed. This prospective, randomized, controlled trial included 150 adult patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy at Cytecare Cancer Hospitals, Bengaluru. Patients were randomized to receive either dietary counselling using NCP pathway (n=80) or standard practice (n=70). Outcome measures were QoL assessed using European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire C-30 and nutritional status was assessed using Subjective Global Assessment at baseline and after 12 weeks of starting treatment. Patient experience was recorded using organizational patient satisfaction survey tool. The dietary counselling group showed improved QoL compared with the standard practice group at the end of 12 weeks of starting treatment (p&lt;0.01). The body weight and nutritional status significantly improved in the group that received dietary counselling using the NCP pathway compared with standard practice (p&lt;0.01). The dietary counselling group also reported higher patient satisfaction with the nutrition intervention compared with standard practice. Dietary counselling following the nutrition care process pathway result in significant difference in the QoL and nutritional status compared with standard practice in patients undergoing cancer treatment. Nutrition intervention using this model also increased the patient experience.</p>

scholarly journals The impact of chemotherapy-related nausea on patients' nutritional status, psychological distress and quality of life

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Farrell ◽  
Sarah G. Brearley ◽  
Mark Pilling ◽  
Alex Molassiotis
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Intervensi penatalaksanaan gizi dalam meningkatkan kadar hemoglobin dan tumbuh kembang balita stunting

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Delima Citra Dewi Gunawan ◽  
Endri Yuliati
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Hemoglobin Concentration ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Nutrition Care Process ◽  
Weight For Age

The intervention of nutrition management can increase hemoglobin levels and development on stunting toddlerBackground: The prevalence of stunting remains high in Indonesia. Stunting has serious effects on children such as increased morbidity, mortality, and decreasing physical and cognitive capability. Objectives: To analyze the effect of the nutrition care process on nutritional status, hemoglobin, and development on stunting children. Methods: This quasi-experimental study used a non-randomized pre and post-test with a control group design. Fortyfour children under five were divided into 2 groups; the intervention group received the nutrition care process for 3 months, while a control group received a leaflet. Nutritional status was determined by body weight for age, hemoglobin concentration using finger test stick, and development using a questionnaire. Results: There were significant differences (p<0.05) in weight for age between the two groups, both before and after the intervention. However, the differences of weight for an age before and after intervention in each group were not significant (p=0.184 and p=0.130). The increase of hemoglobin concentration between before and after intervention in the intervention group was statistically significant (p=0.008). On the other hand, there was a significant decrease in hemoglobin concentration in a control group (p=0.003). There was an increase of subjects having accordance development, from 9 to 15 subjects in the intervention group. The development between before and after the intervention was significantly different (p=0.03), but not in the control group (p=0.78). Conclusions: The nutrition care process could accelerate the improvement of hemoglobin concentration and development, but not on the nutritional status of stunting children.

Naming Nutrition Injustice: How Might Dietitians Articulate a Socially Just Dietetic Practice?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Jennifer Brady
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Willingness To Change ◽  
Paper Work ◽  
Nutrition Care Process ◽  
Primary Care Institutions

This paper invites readers to consider how the ideals, concepts, and language of nutrition justice may be incorporated into the everyday practice of clinical dietitians whose work is often carried out within large, conservative, primary care institutions. How might clinical dietitians address the nutritional injustices that bring people to their practice, when practitioners are constrained by the limits of current diagnostic language, as well as the exigencies of their workplaces. In the first part of this paper, I draw on Cadieux and Slocum’s work on food justice to develop a conceptual framework for nutrition justice. I assert that a justice-oriented understanding of nutrition redresses inequities built in to the biomedicalization of nutrition and health, and seeks to trouble by whom and how these are defined. In the second part of this paper, I draw on the conceptual framework of nutrition justice to develop a politicized language framework that articulates nutrition problems as the outcome of nutritional injustices rather than individuals’ deficits of knowledge, willingness to change, or available resources. This language framework serves as a counterpoint to the current and widely accepted clinical language tool, the Nutrition Care Process Terminology, that exemplifies biomedicalized understandings of nutrition and health. Together, I propose that the conceptual and language frameworks I develop in this paper work together to foster what Croom and Kortegast (2018) call “critical professional praxis” within dietetics.

Quality of life among people who use drugs living in poor urban communities in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 103160
Author(s):  
Chika Yamada ◽  
Atsuro Tsutsumi ◽  
Takashi Izutsu ◽  
Maria T.R. Tuliao ◽  
Hiroya Matsuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
People Who Use Drugs

scholarly journals Integrative Treatment of Lung Cancer Patients: Observational Study of 57 Cases

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Anelli ◽  
Alessia Di Nardo ◽  
Massimo Bonucci
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Immune Status ◽  
Conventional Medicine ◽  
Integrative Therapy ◽  
Lung Cancer Patients ◽  
Retrospective Clinical Study

Abstract Introduction A retrospective clinical study was performed to identify the characteristics of patients with lung cancer treated with integrative cancer treatment in addition to conventional medicine. Materials and Methods We reviewed medical records for lung cancer patients who visited a single integrative setting in Rome, Italy. A total of 57 patients were included, and the majority had advanced-stage cancer. All of them underwent integrative therapy with nutrition and phytotherapy indications. The diet was designed to reduce most of possible factors promoting cancer proliferation, inflammation, and obesity. Foods with anti-inflammatory, prebiotic, antioxidant, and anticancer properties had been chosen. Herbal supplements with known effects on lung cancer were prescribed. In particular, astragal, apigenine, fucosterol, polydatin, epigallocatechin gallate, cannabis, curcumin, and inositol were used. Furthermore, medical mushrooms and other substances were used to improve the immune system and to reduce chemotherapy side effects. Five key parameters have been evaluated for 2 years starting at the first surgery: nutritional status, immune status, discontinuation of therapy, quality of life, and prognosis of the disease. Results A relevant improvement in parameters relative to nutritional status, immune status, and quality of life has been observed after integrative therapy compared with the same parameters at the first medical visit before starting such approach. Conclusion The results suggest that integrative therapy may have benefits in patients with lung cancer. Even though there are limitations, the study suggests that integrative therapy could improve nutritional status and quality of life, with possible positive effect on overall survival.

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