대한영양사협회학술지 (Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association)
- 제7권1호
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- Pages.65-71
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- 2001
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- 1225-9861(pISSN)
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- 2383-966X(eISSN)
병원식사 부적응으로 인한 식사 거부 환자의 영양관리
Nutrition Care of Diet - refusal Patients having Difficulties in Adapting to Hospital Diet
- Kim, Hye-Jin (Dietic Dept., St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea) ;
- Jeon, Su-Jin (Dietic Dept., St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea) ;
- Jeong, Gyeong-Hui (Dietic Dept., St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea)
- 발행 : 2001.02.01
초록
The purpose of this study was to produce proper nutrition and foodservice through positive intervention for diet-refusal patients who has difficulties in adaptation to hospital diet, and to contribute to hospital management with the focus of fast recovery. The survey was conducted using questionnaires between July 18 and August 17, 2000. The subjects were consisted of 24 diet-refusal patients who were hospitalized in St. Mary's Hospital except the patients hospitalized for the purpose of operation or pre-therapy tests. Also chart reviews were conducted. The statistical analysis of data was done by SAS/win 6.11 package to determine descriptive analysis and paired t-test and Pearson's correlation. The summary of study results is as follows : 1. Most of the subjects was receiving chemotherapy. The leading place for offering private food was from patient's home. Subjects worried about delayed recovery from illness due to nutritional problems caused by extreme fasting. The problems were in order of anorexia, nausea and vomiting during therapy process. 52.4% of subjects ate hospital diet after positive intervention. 2. Major reasons of hospital diet-refusal patients' dissatisfaction were in order of expenses, dissatisfaction, serum total protein levels were significantly lower(p<.05). 3. Serum Alb(p<.05), Hb(p<.05), Hct(p<.05) and TLC(p<.001) levels showed significantly negative correlations with fasting duration. With these results, it is concluded that a major cause of malnutrition among patients is to last fasting.