Need and demand for nutritional counselling and their association with quality of life, nutritional status and eating-related distress among patients with cancer receiving outpatient chemotherapy: a cross-sectional study.
Saori KoshimotoMasako ArimotoKeiko SaitouMayumi UchiboriAkiko HashizumeAkiko HondaKoji AmanoYasuaki NakajimaHiroyuki UetakeEisuke MatsushimaPublished in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2019)
The demand for nutritional counselling was associated with QOL and eating-related distress. Therefore, medical staff caring for patients with cancer, such as attending physicians, dietitians, nurses, clinical psycho-oncologists, social workers and psychiatric oncologists, should collaborate and share information to provide nutritional counselling.