Mobile APP Utilization for Enhanced Post-Operative Nutritional Recovery
- Conditions
- GI CancerNutritional Deficiency
- Interventions
- Other: My Plate Calorie Tracker
- Registration Number
- NCT04091165
- Brief Summary
This study is to assess the usability and acceptability of a digital food consumption diary as part of the perioperative management of gastrointestinal oncology patients and to evaluate the impact of a digital food diary on adherence to dietician-recommended plan and on quality recovery, using a commercially available smart phone application.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 23
- Diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers confirmed by tissue diagnosis and/or clinical presentation as judged by the treating physician
- Candidate for curative-intent surgery
- Participants will be eligible for participation regardless of degree of malnutrition (as determined at pre-operative dietary consultation)
- Own a smartphone with iOS or Android operating systems with WiFi or 3G/4G connection
- Willingness to download the Livestrong.com MyPlate Calorie Tracker onto a personal smart phone with assumption and responsibility for individual data usage, and creation of login for website data extraction
- Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
- Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study.
- Sufficient English language proficiency to execute study tasks
- Participants with tube feeds and/or need for parenteral/enteral nutrition
- Participants not willing to download or utilize the commercially available weight monitoring application
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Study Group My Plate Calorie Tracker Participants will be identified for inclusion by leaders of the GI Clinic after GI surgery has been scheduled. Upon consenting, participants will be instructed how to download and use the mobile phone application "My Plate Calorie Counter".
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Acceptability of Smart Phone Application Up to 3 months Patient's acceptability of the mobile application to assist with postoperative nutrition goals will be captured by the Exit Questionnaire (6 questions of 12). The Exit Questionnaire includes a mixture of 5-point Likert-scale, yes or no, and open-ended items to assess acceptability. Questions on the 5 point scale use 1 as an indication of acceptability issues of the application and 5 would be acceptability.
Usability of Smart Phone Application Up to 3 months Usability of smart phone application will be captured by (1) number of days that entries have been made by the study participants and recorded as a percentage of the total number of days after discharge from the hospital (obtained from mobile application (2) number of meals recorded in the application per day (obtained from mobile application) and (3) Exit Questionnaire (6 questions of 12). The Exit Questionnaire includes a mixture of 5-point Likert-scale, yes or no, and open-ended items to assess usability. Questions on the 5 point scale use 1 as an indication of difficulty in using application and 5 would be ease of use.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Adherence to Recommended Nutritional Plan Up to 3 months Adherence to the participant's recommended nutritional plan will be calculated by participant's energy (caloric) intake over time, as recorded in the digital food diary, and compared to estimates of the optimum energy needs established by the dietician. Adherence will be reported as a percentage of estimated energy requirements.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
H Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Institute
🇺🇸Tampa, Florida, United States