Eating and Quality of Life in Older Adults with Cancer

患有癌症的老年人的饮食和生活质量

• 批准号: 6836484
• 负责人: JULIE L. LOCHER
• 金额: $ 7.25万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6836484
• 关键词: aging; behavioral /social science research tag; caregivers; clinical research; computer data analysis; eating; health care personnel; health care service evaluation; health services research tag; home for elderly; interview; nutrition aspect of cancer; patient care management; patient care personnel relations; patient oriented research; psychological aspect of aging; psychological aspect of cancer; quality of life; terminal patient care

EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. This application is in response to the NIA Pilot Research Grant Program (PAR-03-056), Topic 8. Cancer in the Elderly. The purpose of this study is to investigate the social and cultural significance of food and eating in community-dwelling older adults with cancer, their caregivers, and their health-care providers, and the affect that this significance has on the development, maintenance, or erosion of the social relationships existing between these individuals and on their quality of life. This is an exploratory study using qualitative interviews that will address three specific questions: 1) What do food and eating represent to community- dwelling older adults with cancer, their caregivers, and their health-care providers? 2) How do the illness and disease process affect the relationship(s) between community-dwelling older adults with cancer and their caregivers as it is mediated by food and eating? 3) How is the instrumental social support given by family, friends, and neighbors, in the form of providing food for the community-dwelling older adult with cancer received by that adult and those living in the same household? In-depth, semi-structured face-to-face interviews will be conducted with two groups of community-dwelling older adults with cancer, their caregivers, and their healthcare providers. The first group of patients will be those who are actively undergoing anti-tumor treatment. The second group will be terminally ill cancer patients who are no longer undergoing anti-tumor therapies. Interviews will be reviewed and systematically coded for thematic and relational content using N6, the latest version of the NUD*IST software. The significance of this project lies in its demonstration of how the social and cultural, as well as the physiological dimensions of food must be taken into account in older adults with cancer. This is particularly relevant in older patients with cancer where matters related to food and eating may become especially problematic. This study will provide preliminary pilot data that can be used to develop interventions aimed at the alleviation of symptoms associated with food and eating. Data gathered from this study will provide information from the perspective of the patients and their caregivers that can be used to design randomized clinical trials involving behavioral interventions that will enable health care providers to better serve older cancer patients. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================

超过提供的空间。该应用是对NIA试点研究赠款计划（PAR-03-056）的响应，主题8。老年人的癌症。这项研究的目的是调查粮食和饮食的社会和文化意义，这些人，护理人员及其医疗保健提供者，以及这种意义对这些人之间现有的社会关系的发展，维持或侵蚀的影响。这是一项使用定性访谈的探索性研究，该研究将解决三个特定问题：1）食物和饮食对有癌症的社区老年人，他们的护理人员和他们的医疗保健提供者代表什么？ 2）疾病和疾病过程如何影响居住在癌症的社区老年人与护理人员之间的关系，因为食物和饮食是由食物和饮食介导的？ 3）如何以家人，朋友和邻居提供的工具性社会支持，形式为该成年人和居住在同一家庭中的癌症的社区老年人提供食物？深入的，半结构化的面对面访谈将与两组有癌症的社区老年人，护理人员和他们的医疗保健提供者进行。第一组患者将是那些积极接受抗肿瘤治疗的患者。第二组将是不再接受抗肿瘤疗法的绝症患者。访谈将进行审查，并使用N6（N6的最新版本）进行审查，并系统地编码为主题和关系内容。该项目的重要性在于它表明必须考虑到老年人在患有癌症的老年人中如何考虑社会和文化以及食物的生理层面。这在老年患者患者中尤其重要，因为与食物和饮食有关的事项可能尤其有问题。这项研究将提供初步的试点数据，可用于开发旨在减轻与食物和饮食相关的症状的干预措施。从这项研究中收集的数据将从患者及其护理人员的角度提供信息，这些信息可用于设计涉及行为干预措施的随机临床试验，这将使医疗保健提供者能够更好地为老年癌症患者服务。表演站点=============================================================================================