A qualitative study about cancer outpatients’ experiences with selective taste control of bread as a self‐care intervention

Corremans, Marleen; Goossens, Edwig; Adriaenssens, Jef; Mortelmans, Dimitri; Geurden, Bart

doi:10.1002/nop2.967

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“…Milzer et al (2022) demonstrated that the boundary-setting activity of recording patterns of fatigue in a diary helps to shape new daily routines during recovery. Corremans et al’s (2022) consideration of food hedonics demonstrates how this could encourage task-focused social interaction based on curiosity and decentralize dialogue around the “suffering patient” (p. 2685). In this study, participants used everyday objects to accommodate or place boundaries around symptoms, placed value on small acts of hedonism or creative displacement activities (reflected in Howard-Jones et al, 2021), and re-invested in existing emotional connections (a key factor also evidenced by Sieverding et al, 2020).…”

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Turning a Curve: How People Use Everyday Resources to Negotiate Recovery From Cancer Treatment With Curative Intent

Bravington,

Johnson,

Macleod

2024

Qual Health Res

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Many more cancers are treated with intent to cure now than in previous decades, but for most, this involves significant effects from which people need to recover psychologically and socially, as well as physically. This longitudinal photo-elicitation interview study uses grounded theory to explain how people discharged from specialist care made use of everyday social and material resources to manage this process at home. Recovery is presented as a curve in life’s pathway requiring gradual reorientation, drawing on social worlds and domestic resources to calibrate this process. Findings are described in three stages: (1) responding to diagnosis and treatment, (2) using social resources for meaning-making, and (3) developing assets for recovery. During treatment, participants drew on past identities to reinforce their sense of self, and personalized health care communication supported this process. In the weeks after treatment, new frameworks of understanding were constructed from perspectives on cancer encountered in the family, workplace, and outpatient clinics. Recovery processes included the negotiation of personal change, the renegotiation of close relationships, and the use of everyday resources to regain three sensations: control, comfort, and continuity. Supportive care would benefit from an individualized exploration of the assets that can help people to negotiate this challenging phase as treatment comes to a close. Possibilities for self-care (the maintenance of health and well-being in the context of everyday life) can be explored and assessed through personalized discussion around the identities, social worlds, and everyday resources available to each individual.

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Turning a Curve: How People Use Everyday Resources to Negotiate Recovery From Cancer Treatment With Curative Intent

Bravington,

Johnson,

Macleod

2024

Qual Health Res

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“…Recent knowledge about the incidence and prevalence of chemotherapy-induced taste alterations may enable tailored food interventions 23 . The description of variations in taste changes in subgroups of chemotherapy is important to inform the dissemination of taste steering interventions.…”

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Prevalence and incidence of chemotherapy-induced taste alterations in adult cancer patients: a systematic review protocol

Corremans

Mortelmans

Geurden

et al. 2022

JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports

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Objective:This study will synthesize the available evidence on the prevalence and incidence of chemotherapy-induced taste alterations in adult cancer patients.Introduction:Taste and smell alterations in cancer patients due to chemotherapy affect patients’ quality of life and can cause malnutrition. Recent knowledge about the incidence and prevalence of chemotherapy-induced taste alterations may enable tailored food interventions for this specific population. Describing variations in taste changes in subgroups of chemotherapy is important to inform taste steering interventions.Inclusion criteria:The review will consider studies that include adult cancer patients who are receiving or have received chemotherapy as a treatment for an oncologic issue. It will include studies that investigate the prevalence and incidence of chemotherapy-induced taste alterations that have been assessed objectively or subjectively by patient-reported outcomes.Methods:A systematic search will be performed of the following databases: MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL (Ovid), Embase, and OpenSIGLE. Analytical, observational, and cross-sectional studies will be considered. All studies will undergo critical appraisal, data extraction, and synthesis. Data will be extracted using the JBI standardized data extraction tool for prevalence and incidence. Type and frequency of treatment and cytostatic agent will be extracted. The population will be described by age and gender. In addition, study methods and proportions of interest to the review question will be extracted. Pooled prevalence estimates will be calculated using a random effects model.Systematic review:PROSPERO CRD42020136706

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A qualitative study about cancer outpatients’ experiences with selective taste control of bread as a self‐care intervention

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Alterations in taste and food hedonics are distressing side effects noted in people with cancer receiving chemotherapy (Gamper et al., 2012;Spotten et al., 2017). These side effects have several consequences. In their systematic review Boltong and Keast (2012) point out the negative effects on nutritional status, quality of life, morbidity and mortality (Boltong & Keast, 2012). In a recent literature review, Spotten et al. (2017) stress that malnutrition, among others, is a predictor of mortality and treatment response. Moreover, the nature of taste and smell changes varies among cancer patients during chemotherapy. In recent years, numerous studies have been conducted on the prevalence of taste disorders due to the disease or the treatment of cancer (Bernhardson

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A qualitative study about cancer outpatients’ experiences with selective taste control of bread as a self‐care intervention

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

Turning a Curve: How People Use Everyday Resources to Negotiate Recovery From Cancer Treatment With Curative Intent

Turning a Curve: How People Use Everyday Resources to Negotiate Recovery From Cancer Treatment With Curative Intent

Prevalence and incidence of chemotherapy-induced taste alterations in adult cancer patients: a systematic review protocol

A qualitative study about cancer outpatients’ experiences with selective taste control of bread as a self‐care intervention

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