Relación del estado nutricional y la calidad de dieta de los pacientes adultos con diagnóstico de cáncer

Abstract

The purpose of this research project was to determine the nutritional status and diet quality of patients diagnosed with cancer in a private health entity in the city of Ambato. The study was descriptive, cross-sectional, and the subjects included in the study were 45 patients, 31 were female and 14 were male. For the assessment, a nutritional evaluation instrument of our own authorship was used, which arose from the compilation of different subjective assessment instruments previously used in other studies. In this nutritional status assessment tool, anthropometric indicators such as weight, height, BMI, fat mass and muscle mass were taken into account. Biochemical indicators considered were hemoglobin, hematocrit, lymphocytes and albumin. Regarding the clinical assessment, the main symptoms that appear in the disease were taken into account and finally, to determine the quality of the diet, a 24- hour recall was used, with a sampling and analysis of exact grams per food with the help of the Photographic Manual of Ecuadorian Foods. The results of the research were processed with the Pearson Chi-square statistical test for the crossover of variables, which showed that according to the indicators used, it can be considered that there is a significant relationship between nutritional status and the quality of the diet of cancer patients.