Qualitative study on hindering factors of nutritional care for family caregivers of patients with digestive system neoplasms after surgery
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20211206-05509
- VernacularTitle:消化系统肿瘤术后患者家庭照护者营养照护阻碍因素的质性研究
- Author:
Xu CHENG
1
;
Mei ZHAO
;
Ningning YU
;
Xin LIANG
;
Yiping SHU
;
Xinyu YANG
Author Information
1. 安徽医科大学护理学院，合肥 230032
- Keywords:
Digestive system neoplasms;
Family caregivers;
Nutritional care;
Hindering factors;
Qualitative study
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2022;28(26):3553-3557
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To explore the main hindering factors of nutritional care for family caregivers of patients with digestive system neoplasms after surgery, so as to provide reference for nursing workers to improve the quality of nutritional care for family caregivers and formulate personalized intervention programs.Methods:From January to April 2021, the phenomenological research method was used to select 14 family caregivers of patients with digestive system neoplasms after surgery in the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University for semi-structured interviews, and Colaizzi 7-step analysis method was used to analyze and collate the data.Results:The obstacles to nutritional care for family caregivers of patients with digestive system neoplasms after surgery extracted 4 themes and 9 sub-themes. The first theme was insufficient awareness of nutritional care, including caregivers' insufficient awareness of the importance of nutritional care and lack of awareness of nutritional risks related to assisted eating. The second theme was the lack of nutritional care ability, including lack of nutrition knowledge of caregivers, poor practical ability of caregivers and poor compliance and initiative of caregivers. The third theme was the difficulty in obtaining and using nutritional information, including limited access to information for caregivers and difficulties in using information for caregivers. The fourth theme was caregiver role barriers in nutritional care, including lack of social support and heavy family financial burden.Conclusions:Nursing workers can formulate individualized interventions for family caregivers' nutritional care barriers, promote the improvement of nutritional care quality of them and then improve patients' nutritional status and quality of life.
