Giuseppe Carruba, Maria Luisa Calagna, Ildegarda Campisi, Stella Cutrera, Laura Napoli, Giovanni Pitti, Valentina Palmisano, Giuseppina Savio, Antonella Usset, Vita Leonardi, Angela Di Pasquale, Salvatore Requirez, Livio Blasi
This paper presents a multi-professional integrated approach toward the recognition and management of the nutritional and psychological needs of cancer patients. In particular, the patients undertook a multi-professional, multistep process that included the collection of both personal and clinical data, the evaluation of anthropometric measures, nutritional status and psychometric indices, and an ensuing personalized nutritional prescription and psychological support, ultimately leading to combined nutritional and psychological interventions to control their adherence to a nutritional program and to consolidate motivation to change...
July 21, 2022: Diseases (Basel)