Web-based Platform for Nutrition Management in Patients With Cancer

Xingchen Peng

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Nutrition

Treatments: Other: nutrtion care based on app

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07307404

2024-2316

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is crucial to promptly identify nutritional issues in these patients within the community and provide them with dietary guidance, nutritional counseling, and support. This study will be conducted in communities in Chengdu, Sichuan. Community management teams will register oncology patients, collecting information such as demographic data, tumor type, stage, specific treatment plan, treatment hospital, regularity of hospital admissions, and frequency of independent smartphone use. Registered patients will be screened based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. For those who meet the criteria, the community management team will contact them and recommend the use of a dedicated app developed by the research team. An initial nutritional assessment will also be conducted. Patients identified with nutritional risks will be directly referred to the research team's clinical nutritionists for face-to-face consultations. After additional tests, such as body composition analysis, necessary nutritional education and stepwise nutritional interventions will be provided. These patients will also use the app for dietary monitoring and nutritional guidance. For patients without nutritional risks, the app will be recommended for daily questionnaire completion and activity tracking.

Enrollment: 84 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pathologically confirmed malignant tumor;
• PG-SGA score of 4-9 points;
• Age: ≥18 years, with an expected survival time of more than 1 year;
• Possesses adequate cognitive and reading abilities to complete questionnaires and use the APP.

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of neurological or psychiatric disorders affecting cognitive function, including central nervous system metastasis of tumors;
• Suffering from conditions severely impacting digestion, metabolism, or food intake;
• Patients in the cachexia stage or refractory cachexia phase.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Self-Intervention: During the period of staying at home, patients use the app developed by the team for self-intervention, including dietary monitoring and check-ins, nutritional risk assessment, learning of educational knowledge, and online expert consultations. Community Intervention: When nutritional risks are detected, pop-up alerts will notify patients to communicate with the community management team. Patients can seek basic nutritional consultations and receive advice from the community management team. If necessary, the management team will refer patients to relevant higher-level hospital outpatient clinics for further care. If patients experience other issues related to their primary condition, the community management team will refer them to community healthcare providers for consultation and treatment. The community will also organize thematic lectures on nutritional management for cancer patients, with oncologists and nutritionists providing regular voluntary consultatio

Treatment:

Other: nutrtion care based on app

standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

standard nutrtion care