From: Meal context and food preferences in cancer patients: results from a French self-report survey
#1 Cancer treatment side effects and their impact on eating and drinking | |
#1.1 | Describe the side effects induced by the treatment: nausea, swallowing difficulties, mouth ulcers, constipation, dry mouth, chewing difficulties, persistent taste, diarrhea, fatigue, hypersensitivity to odors, vomiting, and/or others. |
#1.2 | Do these side effects disturb your eating and drinking? Yes or no. |
If yes, describe how: appetite loss, mouth and esophagus pain, fast fullness, food aversion, digestion pain, and/or other. | |
#1.3 | How long do these difficulties persist after treatment? |
#2 Cooking skills | |
#2.1 | Are you able to cook as soon as you come back home? Yes, no or only after n days. |
#2.2 | Are you helped by: a parent/family member/relative, home delivery, ready-to-eat products, and/or others? |
#3 Dietary behavior | |
#3.1 | What meals and/or snacks do you currently have in one day? Breakfast, light morning meal, lunch, light mid-afternoon meal, dinner, and/or other. |
#3.2 | What is currently your favorite meal? Breakfast, light morning meal, lunch, light mid-afternoon meal, dinner, and/or no preference. |
#3.3 | What portion would you eat if a full meal was served to you in the hospital or at home? For the first course, for the second course, for the cheese and/or yogurt, for the dessert, and/or for the snack, would you eat 0, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1 or 2 portions? |
#4 Food preferences | |
#4.1 | What do you currently prefer to eat: salty, sweet, hot, cold, into pieces, minced, blended, creamy, liquid, and/or other? |
#4.2 | Since the beginning of the treatment, what food, salty or sweet courses do you prefer to eat? |
#4.3 | Specify for what foods you have developed nausea or an aversion. |
#4.4 | What are the most important food attributes that stimulate your appetite (in descending order of importance from 1 to 7): taste, aspect, odor, consistency, quantity, presentation, and/or other? |
#4.5 | What type of snacks do you prefer to eat: salty, sweet, creamy desserts, ice creams, biscuits, milky beverages, others beverages, and/or others? |
#5 Nutrient-enriched foods | |
#5.1 | Have you already experimented with enriched or fortified foods? Yes or no. |
If yes, in what context have you experimented with it: in the hospital, at home, and/or, other? | |
If yes, please specify: blended courses, creamy desserts, milky beverages, non-milky beverages, and/or others? | |
If yes, are you satisfied with the products: very satisfied, satisfied or not satisfied? Please specify why. | |
#6 Preferences for a new dietary product | |
#6.1 | If new dietary products were developed, what advantages would motivate you to purchase them (in descending order of importance from 1 to 9): taste, sale price, ready-to-eat, dietary counseling, medical prescription, mode of preservation, nutritional value, partial reimbursement, or others? |
#6.2 | Where do you prefer to find these new products: pharmacies, dietary shops, supermarkets, and/or home delivery? |
#6.3 | What type of new products would you prefer: frozen, canned, fresh or other? |