The information and practices of the cancerous patients about nutrition
Keywords:
Cancer, Nutrition, Information, Practice, NursingAbstract
The aims of this research are to determine knowledge level of nutrition of cancerous patients, to find out nutrients which is taken by patients after suffer from a cancer. The study was carried out as descriptive cross-sectional. The sample of study includes 150 cancer diagnosed patients. It was determined that the majority of the patients (81.4%) – mostly females - participating in the study was older than 35 years old. It was identified that the majority of cancerous disease had breast cancer and lung cancer (65.4%) and that the majority of patients had new diagnosis and cancer diagnosis a month ago (64.7%). The fact that the amount of fruits that are necessary to be consumed every day remains in 45.3% and that the daily consumption rate of vegetable remains in 14 s% also demonstrated that nutrition was inadequate; that fish was not eaten.
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