Publication: Nutritional status and its relationship with the quality of life in cancer patients
| dc.contributor.author | Rozuki, Nurul Izzatie Mohd | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-04-01T04:02:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-04-01T04:02:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: In patients with cancer, poor nutritional status is related with poor outcomes and altered quality of life. For that, the aim of this study was to identify relationship between nutritional status with quality of life in cancer patients at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia. Methods: The respondents had been selected as sample using purposive sampling and interviews method had been used to obtain the information such as socio-demographic data, cancer types, weight and height. For quality of life, European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) was used to assess quality of life and it were self-answered questions. Results: There were a total 90 of participants and 54.4% of participants had normal weight followed by obese (16.7%), underweight (15.6%) and overweight (13.3%). In this study, population's global quality of health score is 58.06 ± 18.84 and the mean score of patients in BMI categories of overweight were the highest (69.44 ± 15.21) followed by normal weight (56.80 ± 21.16), underweight (56.55 ± 13.94) and obese (54.44 ± 15.06) and for gender it was 58.89 ± 17.95 in the females and 56.39 ± 20.72 in the males. It also had been found that there is no statistically difference of mean score of quality of life in each dimension with BMI except for dimension of pain, tested using ANNOY A with (p= 0.032). Conclusion: Normal weight patients were common in a representative population of cancer patients at HUSM. HUSM population's quality of health score is slightly less than the EORTC reference value global score. This result had proved that there was worsening of overall quality of life of cancer patients in this population and in comparison with was higher in the females than males. Overall quality of life had demonstrated that overweight had a greater quality of life and obese was in the lowest other than others. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://erepo.usm.my/handle/123456789/23840 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | - | |
| dc.title | Nutritional status and its relationship with the quality of life in cancer patients | |
| dc.type | Resource Types::text::thesis::bachelor thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oairecerif.author.affiliation | Universiti Sains Malaysia |