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KMID : 0123520150220030219
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Journal of muscle and joint health
2015 Volume.22 No. 3 p.219 ~ p.227
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Relationships among Dietary Compliance, Nutritional Status and Stages of Disease in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis
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Yun Mi-Jeong
Min Hye-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of dietary compliance, nutritional status, and stages of disease in patients with liver cirrhosis and to identify the relationships among those variables.
Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design and conducted a survey of 100 patients who were treated at D-university hospital in Busan. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlation coefficients were performed using SPSS/WINdow 20.0 program.
Results: The mean score of dietary compliance was 3.50 in the a 5-point scale. Stage of disease was significantly correlated with dietary compliance (r=.20, p=.048), and protein as one of nutritional status (r=-.44, p<.001).
Conclusion: These findings suggest that dietary compliance of patients with liver cirrhosis can have an influence on prognosis of disease. Therefore, patients should be encouraged to improve dietary compliance from the early stage of liver cirrhosis.
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KEYWORD
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Dietary compliance, Nutritional status, Stage of disease, Liver cirrhosis
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