TY - JOUR
T1 - Nutritional Status and Its Contributing Factors among Older Adults with Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy
AU - Abd Allah, Eman Shokry
AU - Gad, Hanan Mohammed Mohammed
AU - Abdel-Aziz, Hassanat Ramadan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - The study aimed to assess nutritional status and its contributing factors among older adults with cancer receiving chemotherapy so, a descriptive study design was used. The study was conducted at Zagazig University Hospitals, Egypt. The study’s sample was selected purposively which composed of 194 older adults. Nutritional status was measured by the Arabic version of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA). Contributing factors were identified by examining the relationship of nutritional status with demographic and clinical variables. Study results revealed that 33% of the older patients were malnourished and 51.5% were at risk for malnutrition. Statistically significant relations were found between nutritional status and advanced age, illiteracy, insufficient monthly income, comorbidities, cancer stage four at diagnosis, and receiving ≥4 chemotherapy cycles. High prevalence of malnutrition and many contributing factors were identified among older patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy. So, continuous malnutrition screening along chemotherapy courses with special concern for contributing factors assessed in this study is recommended.
AB - The study aimed to assess nutritional status and its contributing factors among older adults with cancer receiving chemotherapy so, a descriptive study design was used. The study was conducted at Zagazig University Hospitals, Egypt. The study’s sample was selected purposively which composed of 194 older adults. Nutritional status was measured by the Arabic version of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA). Contributing factors were identified by examining the relationship of nutritional status with demographic and clinical variables. Study results revealed that 33% of the older patients were malnourished and 51.5% were at risk for malnutrition. Statistically significant relations were found between nutritional status and advanced age, illiteracy, insufficient monthly income, comorbidities, cancer stage four at diagnosis, and receiving ≥4 chemotherapy cycles. High prevalence of malnutrition and many contributing factors were identified among older patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy. So, continuous malnutrition screening along chemotherapy courses with special concern for contributing factors assessed in this study is recommended.
KW - cancer
KW - chemotherapy
KW - contributing Factors
KW - nutritional status
KW - older adults
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089027566&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1054773820947953
DO - 10.1177/1054773820947953
M3 - Article
C2 - 32755230
AN - SCOPUS:85089027566
SN - 1054-7738
VL - 29
SP - 650
EP - 658
JO - Clinical Nursing Research
JF - Clinical Nursing Research
IS - 8
ER -
