The home dietary changes in postoperative patients with gastric cancer: a qualitative study / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the experience of home dietary changes in postoperative patients with gastric cancer.Methods:From December 2019 to February 2020, purpose sampling method was used to select 13 postoperative gastric cancer patients from the Oncology Department of Taixing People's Hospital in Jiangsu Province to conduct semi-structured interviews. The Colaizzi seven-step analysis method was used to analyze the interview data and extract topics.Results:Three main themes were summarized: reconstruction of dietary habits, lack of pleasure in eating, and continuous dietary nursing needs.Conclusions:There are many dietary problems in postoperative patients with gastric cancer. Medical staff should pay attention to dietary changes of patients and take targeted intervention measures, in order to increase the positive experience of dietary.