250P - An analysis of nutritional and psychological status of patients with advanced cancer

Background

It is widely believed that nutritional and psychological disorders can affect the outcome of cancer treatment and the life quality of patients. However, the importance of nutritional and psychological interventions is still underestimated, and cancer treatment remains the main focus of clinical practice. In order to raise awareness of clinicians, we conducted a survey of nutritional and psychological status of cancer patients.

Methods

From December 2020 to January 2022, 1000 patients with advanced cancer completed the online survey of stardard nutritional and psychological scales.

Results

All the patients had solid tumors, and most(84.1%) of them had trouble in life quality caused by cancer treatment. The survey indicated 74.7% of the patients had at least once nutritional risk. Psychological disorders referred to three terms including insomnia, anxiety and depression. Patients experienced mild, moderate and severe insomnia was respectively 48.2%, 18.5% and 1.5%; mild, moderate and severe anxiety was respectively 57.5%, 25.5% and 3.3%; mild, moderate and severe depression was respectively 20.7%, 9.5% and 2.3%. Surprising 92.7% of the patients had never received any nutritional or psychological intervention.

Conclusions

There is an urgent need to assess the nutritional and psychological status of cancer patients in the early stage of treatment, and implement effective interventions to enable more patients to live longer and better.

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Editorial acknowledgement

Legal entity responsible for the study

The authors.

Funding

Has not received any funding.

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.