Mobile APP Utilization for Enhanced Post-Operative Nutritional Recovery

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: GI Cancer; Nutritional Deficiency

Treatments: Other: My Plate Calorie Tracker

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04091165

MCC-19978

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to assess the usability and acceptability of a digital food consumption diary as part of the perioperative management of gastrointestinal oncology patients and to evaluate the impact of a digital food diary on adherence to dietician-recommended plan and on quality recovery, using a commercially available smart phone application.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers confirmed by tissue diagnosis and/or clinical presentation as judged by the treating physician
• Candidate for curative-intent surgery
• Participants will be eligible for participation regardless of degree of malnutrition (as determined at pre-operative dietary consultation)
• Own a smartphone with iOS or Android operating systems with WiFi or 3G/4G connection
• Willingness to download the Livestrong.com MyPlate Calorie Tracker onto a personal smart phone with assumption and responsibility for individual data usage, and creation of login for website data extraction
• Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
• Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study.
• Sufficient English language proficiency to execute study tasks

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with tube feeds and/or need for parenteral/enteral nutrition
• Participants not willing to download or utilize the commercially available weight monitoring application

Trial design

23 participants in 1 patient group

Study Group

Description:

Participants will be identified for inclusion by leaders of the GI Clinic after GI surgery has been scheduled. Upon consenting, participants will be instructed how to download and use the mobile phone application "My Plate Calorie Counter".

Treatment:

Other: My Plate Calorie Tracker