NCT05364359

Individual Dietary Counseling Based on Taste-tests in Patients With Hematological Cancer in Cytostatic Therapy

Individuel diætvejledning på Baggrund af Smagstest Hos Patienter Med hæmatologisk Cancer i Cytostatisk Behandling

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Copenhagen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to investigate whether a simple taste-test will increase the intake of energy as part of the individual dietary counseling.

Detailed description

The investigators will investigate the tastes (umami, bitter, salty, sweet and sour) that the patients prefers in order to increase the energy intake and reduce the risk of weight loss and loss of fat-free mass for patients with hematological cancer. The study will be conducted as a single blinded randomized controlled trial. 40 patients will be recruited, and will be divided into two groups; the intervention group and the control group. The patients will not know which group they belong to.

Conditions

• Hematological Malignancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Taste-test	Patients will receive a dietary counseling based on a simple taste-test
OTHER	Standard care	Patients will receive a dietary counseling based on a standard dietary counseling for the patient group

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-28
• Primary completion: 2022-07-28
• Completion: 2022-08-15
• First posted: 2022-05-06
• Last updated: 2022-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark