Effect of Food Intake and Living Activities Toward Middle Childhood with Leukemia
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Amount of Food Items Intake, Daily Living Activities, Children, LeukemiaAbstract
Objectives: To Assess the Amount of Food Items Intakeand the Daily Living Activities Regarding Children with Leukemia.To find out the associationbetween Food Frequency Intakeand Daily Living Activities Regarding Children with Leukemia.
Methodology: A “Descriptive (Cross sectional) study” was conducted at Hematology and Oncology Center at Al-Nasiriya Teaching between the period of (19 March to 9 December 2024).
Results: The study revealed a significant positive correlation between the Food Items Intakeof children with leukemia and their daily living activities.
Conclusion: Children with leukemia are affected by the treatments used, such as chemotherapy or radiation, and this in turn affects the children’s loss of appetite, and thus they eat meals of average quality and small quantity. Which negatively affects children's daily life activities.
Recommendations: Recommendations: Parents of children must be educated on the negative effects that result from malnutrition and its impact on the time and rate of their recovery from the disease, and focus on improving dietary pattern, their diversity and the number of main meals the child eats to provide him with energy and growth, and encourage sick children to rely on themselves for their special needs. Providing detailed scientific information about the disease in an appropriate way to explain it to the children’s parents.
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