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Eating Experience at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Wards - a Qualitative Study

NCT05614323 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2025-03-30

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Summary

In hospitalized patients with cancer treated with systemic therapy, semi-structured in-depth interviews will be performed. Topics that will be discussed are eating-related complaints, the taste and smell of the offered hospital food, the choice in hospital food, the ambience during the eating moments, the use of protein-enriched snacks, the difference between eating at home and at the hospital, and personal tips-and-tricks to maintain adequate nutritional intake and improve food enjoyment in the hospital. Patients will be included until data saturation is reached. The interviews will be recorded and analyzed according to the principles of thematic analysis.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Interview and determining taste and smell with taste strips and Sniffin' Sticks

The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) Short Form will be filled in by the participants. Next, a semi-structured in-depth interview will be performed in a quiet environment. The interview will take a maximum of one hour and will take place once. Topics that will be discussed are eating-related problems, the taste and smell of the offered hospital food, the choice in hospital food, the ambience during the eating moments, the use of protein-enriched snacks, the difference between eating at home and at the hospital, personal tips- and-tricks to maintain adequate nutritional intake, and how patients' think that food enjoyment can be improved in the hospital. The interview will be recorded. At last, taste and smell will be objectively determined with respectively taste strips and Sniffin' Sticks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Medical Center Groningen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jacco J de Haan, MD, PhD · University Medical Center Groningen

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-16
Primary Completion
2023-11-26
Completion
2023-11-26

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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