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Journal Article
CLINICAL NUTRITION VIRTUAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS: EVALUATING THE IMPACT IN THE ONCOLOGY PATIENT POPULATION AND COMMUNITY AT LARGE
2024
Overview
Nutrition plays a critical role in cancer care. Malnutrition occurs in up to 80% of cancer patients (1). Negative outcomes of malnutrition include longer hospital admissions, higher infection rates, decreased tolerance to treatment, and increased mortality. Beyond cancer care, nutrition plays a vital role in reducing the risk of chronic diseases, managing illness, and weight management to improve overall quality of life. Oncology nurses play a pivotal role in identifying patients' nutritional challenges and referring to appropriate clinicians and outreach programs. This abstract will explore the impact and effectiveness of virtual clinical nutrition outreach programs. Our virtual nutrition outreach programs are currently targeting 2 different audiences. The Virtual Survivorship Wellness Series was designed for cancer survivors, not in active treatment, to address long term nutrition and reducing risk of recurrence with lifestyle and behavior change. The Virtual Wellness Series is a larger outreach effort to improve nutrition and wellness in our community. Engaging participants to improve dietary habits encourages them to take ownership of their own health. By providing virtual programs the nutrition team can cover a larger geographic area, including rural areas, work around busy schedules, and increase participation over in-person programs. The virtual survivorship wellness series is offered twice annually, an hour weekly for six weeks, and the virtual wellness series is a 30-minute session monthly, alternating between webinar-style lunch and learns or teaching kitchens. A 10-question survey was emailed to all participants for any of the events offered between August 2022 and August 2023. The survey questions assessed changes in dietary habits pre and post virtual nutrition education. 76% of respondents reported improvements in at least one category. Notably, the most improvement was seen in overall diet and frequency of physical activity. Results of the survey show an overall improvement in healthy lifestyle habits from participating in virtual nutrition outreach programs. Of note, the original sample size was relatively small with 17 of 60 surveys returned. In the future, it may be worth examining findings over a longer period, thus increasing the number of respondents.
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Oncology Nursing Society
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