Opportunities for Patient Participation in Perioperative Malnutrition Care: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the perioperative period of hospitalization, barriers to food intake are common due to special nutritional needs, compromised nutritional status, and metabolic stress. Good nutritional care call for an interdisciplinary approach. And patients themselves may also play an essential role in managing nutritional care.

Objective

This study aimed to explore how patients with malnutrition experience nutritional care, their perspectives on patient participation, and their own role in malnutrition care in the perioperative period of hospitalization.

Methods

A qualitative study was conducted using an interpretive phenomenological approach. To follow patients' experiences, in-depth longitudinal interviews were undertaken before, during, and after hospitalization.

SUBMITTER: van den Berg G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10483977 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature