NCT03114202

Effects of Nutritional Counseling on Nutritional Status and Quality of Life of Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Effects of Intensive Nutritional Counseling on Nutritional Status and Quality of Life of Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Undergoing Radiation Therapy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates the effects of nutritional counseling versus standard nutritional care on nutritional status and quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer submitted to radiotherapy.Half participants will receive intensive nutritional counseling while the other half will receive standard care.

Detailed description

Considering that head and neck cancer patients usually present reduced food intake with consequent involuntary weight loss and significant worsening of quality of life, this study investigates the effects of nutritional counseling versus standard nutritional care on nutritional status and quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer submitted to radiotherapy. Half participants (45) will receive intensive nutritional counseling, that is, once they are admitted to the study and once a week during radiotherapy, following the protocol of nutritional care to cancer patients in radiotherapy proposed by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). The other half (45) will receive standard care, that is, nutritional counseling / education performed by hospital nurses and nutritional care performed by the hospital nutritionist (when there is a demand, usually 1 to 2 times during oncologic treatment).

Conditions

• Head and Neck Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	intensive nutritional counseling	Individualised nutrition intervention in the form of regular and intensive nutrition counselling by a dietitian, following a predetermined standard nutrition protocol, the Medical Nutrition Therapy (Cancer/Radiation Oncology) protocol of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) every week during radiotherapy. Individually tailored sample meal plans, recipe suggestions and hints to minimise the side effects of the tumour and therapy will be provided.
OTHER	Standard care	Nutritional counseling / education performed by hospital nurses and nutritional care performed by the hospital nutritionist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-18
• Primary completion: 2018-08-06
• Completion: 2018-10-01
• First posted: 2017-04-14
• Last updated: 2017-07-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Brazil