Fariba Taleghani1, Maryam Ehsani2, Sedigheh Farzi3, Saba Farzi4, Peyman Adibi5, Azam Moladoost6, Mohsen Shahriari1, Mahnaz Tabakhan7. 1. Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Department of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 2. Nursing Care Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Department of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Sedighehfarzi@nm.mui.ac.ir. 4. Student Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 5. Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Integrative Functional Gastroenterology Research Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 6. Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran. 7. Omid Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study aims to explore the perceptions of gastric cancer patients, their family caregivers, physicians, and nurses of nutritional challenges. METHODS: Using a descriptive qualitative method, this study was conducted in 2019-2020. Twenty participants (6 patients, 6 family caregivers, 3 physicians, and 5 nurses) were selected through purposive sampling. Data was collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and examined using qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: Data analysis revealed three categories, each with two subcategories: eating, an unpleasant experience that contains "a feeling like hyperemesis gravidarum" and "childish food excuses"; flexibility while adhering to a proper diet, which consists of "dietary dos and don'ts" and "nutritional leniency"; and nutrition with distress that contains "patient's sense of being an extra burden" and "provision of nutrition with suffering in caregivers." CONCLUSION: Because of the significant physical and psychological impact of nutritional problems on patients and their caregivers, the need to provide care and education to these patients and their families using a multidisciplinary team is becoming more important.
PURPOSE: This study aims to explore the perceptions of gastric cancerpatients, their family caregivers, physicians, and nurses of nutritional challenges. METHODS: Using a descriptive qualitative method, this study was conducted in 2019-2020. Twenty participants (6 patients, 6 family caregivers, 3 physicians, and 5 nurses) were selected through purposive sampling. Data was collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and examined using qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: Data analysis revealed three categories, each with two subcategories: eating, an unpleasant experience that contains "a feeling like hyperemesis gravidarum" and "childish food excuses"; flexibility while adhering to a proper diet, which consists of "dietary dos and don'ts" and "nutritional leniency"; and nutrition with distress that contains "patient's sense of being an extra burden" and "provision of nutrition with suffering in caregivers." CONCLUSION: Because of the significant physical and psychological impact of nutritional problems on patients and their caregivers, the need to provide care and education to these patients and their families using a multidisciplinary team is becoming more important.