Web-based Platform for Nutrition Management in Patients With Cancer

ConditionNutrition

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age18-80

SponsorXingchen Peng

About this trial

It is crucial to promptly identify nutritional issues in these patients within the community and provide them with dietary guidance, nutritional counseling, and support. This study will be conducted in communities in Chengdu, Sichuan. Community management teams will register oncology patients, collecting information such as demographic data, tumor type, stage, specific treatment plan, treatment hospital, regularity of hospital admissions, and frequency of independent smartphone use. Registered patients will be screened based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. For those who meet the criteria, the community management team will contact them and recommend the use of a dedicated app developed by the research team. An initial nutritional assessment will also be conducted. Patients identified with nutritional risks will be directly referred to the research team's clinical nutritionists for face-to-face consultations. After additional tests, such as body composition analysis, necessary nutritional education and stepwise nutritional interventions will be provided. These patients will also use the app for dietary monitoring and nutritional guidance. For patients without nutritional risks, the app will be recommended for daily questionnaire completion and activity tracking.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Pathologically confirmed malignant tumor;

PG-SGA score of 4-9 points;

Age: ≥18 years, with an expected survival time of more than 1 year;

Possesses adequate cognitive and reading abilities to complete questionnaires and use the APP.

Disqualifiers

Presence of neurological or psychiatric disorders affecting cognitive function, including central nervous system metastasis of tumors;

Suffering from conditions severely impacting digestion, metabolism, or food intake;

Patients in the cachexia stage or refractory cachexia phase.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

nutrtion care based on app
Other intervention
Self-Intervention: During the period of staying at home, patients use the app developed by the team for self-intervention, including dietary monitoring and check-ins, nutritional risk assessment, learning of educational knowledge, and online expert consultations. Community Intervention: When nutritional risks are detected, pop-up alerts will notify patients to communicate with the community management team. Patients can seek basic nutritional consultations and receive advice from the community management team. If necessary, the management team will refer patients to relevant higher-level hospital outpatient clinics for further care. If patients experience other issues related to their primary condition, the community management team will refer them to community healthcare providers for consultation and treatment. The community will also organize thematic lectures on nutritional management for cancer patients, with oncologists and nutritionists providing regular voluntary consultation

Treatment groups

84 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: intervention groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: standard careNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

body weight change

change of body weight during the trail

Time frame

baseline, pre-intervention；every 2 weeks after randomization until 6 moths.

Secondary outcomes

PG-SGA

assessed using the PG-SGA score

Time frame

baseline, pre-intervention；every 2 weeks after randomization until 6 moths.

NRS2002

using nutrition risk screening \[NRS 2002\]

Time frame

baseline, pre-intervention；every 2 weeks after randomization until 6 moths.

Other outcomes

EORTC QLQ C30

using Quality-of-Life Questionnaire Core 30

Time frame

baseline, pre-intervention；every 4 weeks after randomization until 6 moths.

caregiver burden

using the 12-Item Zarit Burden Interview \[ZBI\]

Time frame

baseline, pre-intervention；every 4 weeks after randomization until 6 moths.

psychology characteristics

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale \[HADS\]

Time frame

baseline, pre-intervention；every 4 weeks after randomization until 6 moths.

Sponsors and contacts

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Xingchen Peng

Lead sponsor

West China Hospital

Sponsor institution

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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