Influence of Dietary and Palliative Care Consultation on the Quality of Life (Qol), Performance Status, and Nutritional Status of Cancer Patients in Bangladesh
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Consultation on both nutrition, and palliative care, Counselling on nutrition and healthy diet.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cancer. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Bangladesh
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
Cancer patients are more likely to have malnutrition, which has been associated with poorer quality of life, higher morbidity, mortality rates, and impaired efficacy and tolerance to therapy. Malnutrition is thought to afflict the cancer patients, with weight loss and varied degrees of asthenia being the main symptoms. In fact, malnutrition can increase the risk of surgical complications such as anastomosis dehiscence, poor wound healing, morbidity, and mortality. Quality of Life is among the most important health issues for cancer patients. Patients view it as a specific and complex type of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) that considers their social, economic, psychological, and physical activities. The quality of life for cancer patients is often lower than for the general population. Despite the fact that several studies in the Western population have suggested a relationship between nutritional status and quality of life (QoL). There aren't many reliable, in-depth studies on the effectiveness of nutritional testing and early malnutrition therapy, as well as to look at the nutritional health and quality of life of cancer patients in Bangladesh. Therefore, the aim of this study is to outline the Influence of Dietary and Palliative Care Consultation on the Quality of Life (Qol), Performance Status, and Nutritional Status of Cancer Patients in Bangladesh. To conduct this randomized control trial (RCT), data will be collected through 3 observations: baseline survey with two follow-up surveys on the following months from the selected cohorts of cancer patients who will be receiving cancer treatments. There will be two groups of cohort, one will be given nutrition and palliative care counselling will be given as intervention during each observation and another group will be without consultancy. "The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire version 3.0 (EORTC-QLQ C30)", "The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment PG-SGA)" to estimate nutritional status, and "The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group's (ECOG) scale" to determine the performance status (PS) will be used as instruments to collect data.
Interventions
- Behavioral Consultation on both nutrition, and palliative care
The intervention on the nutrition and palliative care components will include open-ended consultations based on ESPEN practical guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients with one cancer center dietitian and one palliative care physician to discuss patient needs and required to improve their health consequences. - Behavioral Counselling on nutrition and healthy diet
The intervention on the nutrition and healthy diet components will include open-ended consultations based on ESPEN practical guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients with one cancer center dietitian to discuss patient dietary needs for improving their health consequences.
Primary outcome measures
- Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) Scale [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of interventions at 10 weeks.]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group's (ECOG) scale [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of interventions at 10 weeks.]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Cancer Patients under standard treatment, Willing to participate, Who can eat orally, and Health indicators are measurable.
Exclusion criteria
- Cancer Patients under no standard treatment, Not willing to participate, Who cannot eat orally, Health indicators are not measurable, and Death.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Double blind
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
Bangladesh · 3 centers
- Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) — Chittagong
- Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University — Savar Upazila
- Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) — Mymensingh
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06971263 · BBEC-JU-M2025-02-199