Needs-based Quality of Life in Adults Dependent on Home Parenteral Nutrition

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) provides life sustaining treatment for people with chronic intestinal failure. Individuals may require HPN for months or years and are dependent on regular intravenous infusions, usually 12 to 14 hours overnight between 1 and 7 days each week. This regime can have adverse impact on the life of people dependent on the treatment.The aim of this study was to establish mean values for the Parenteral Nutrition Impact Questionnaire (PNIQ) and to determine the effect of disease, frequency of infusions per week and patient characteristics on quality of life of patients fed HPN.

Source: Clinical Nutrition - June 25, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Sorrel T. Burden, Debra J. Jones, Matthew Gittins, Joanne Ablett, Michael Taylor, Christopher Mountford, Jonathan Tyrrell-Price, Clare Donnellan, Fiona Leslie, Tim Bowling, Simon Gabe, Farooq Rahman, Stephen P. McKenna, Jeanette Wilburn, Alice Heaney, Phi Source Type: research