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Dysphagia and quality of life: a narrative review
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Jung Mi Song
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Ann Clin Nutr Metab 2024;16(2):43-48. Published online August 1, 2024
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15747/ACNM.2024.16.2.43
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- Purpose: Dysphagia is a chronic health condition that causes impairment of eating and drinking functions. It occurs in various diseases such as stroke, neurodegenerative disease, brain tumor, and head and neck cancer, and can also occur during the normal aging process.
Current concept: As patients experience symptoms of dysphagia, they no longer feel the pleasure of eating, depression and anxiety increase, and self-esteem decreases. Prolonged loss of appetite can lead to malnutrition, which can lead to death due to serious complications such as aspiration pneumonia and airway obstruction. Dysphagia reduces quality of life by affecting basic activities of daily living, limitations in social life, nutritional deficiencies, and mood disorders.
Conclusion: Accordingly, I plan to conduct a literature review on the quality of life of patients with dysphagia. First, to determine the relationship between quality of life and sociodemographic, physical health, and mental health characteristics of patients with dysphagia. I also aim to review quality of life measurement tools and intervention programs for patients with dysphagia.
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Nutrition Support Nurse: Roles and Tasks
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Jeong Yun Park, Jung Mi Song, Ja Kyung Min
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J Clin Nutr 2020;12(1):2-6. Published online June 30, 2020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15747/jcn.2020.12.1.2
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- Nutrition care is important for patients’ well-being. With legislation for reimbursement for nutrition support team activities from the Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, this has increased the importance of nurses’ role in nutrition. Nutrition support nurses (NSNs) focus on the optimization of nutritional health and prevention of nutrition-related illness and injury. NSN performs as an advanced practice nurse, a core member of a nutrition support team, an educator or consultant, a policy maker in nutrition care, and a researcher or a member of quality improvement. NSNs should develop their core competency to fulfill their roles in nutrition care and the need to participate in qualified nutrition support education programs. Further, the tasks and duties of NSNs should be specifically identified so that NSNs can fulfill their roles.
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