The effect of virtual education and support on nutrition of patient with colorectal cancer

Intervention 1: Intervention group: they receive educational content in form of educational text messages (2 to 3 messages), audio messages, images and related videos (8 am to 8 pm daily) for one month through a virtual social network. After sending the messages, the participants are requested to send the sentence the message has been read to the researcher at the end of the day after reading the messages. In addition, to ensure the participants understanding of the concept of the sent educational content , at the end of each week, patients were asked 2 to 3 questions about the sent content. Intervention 2: Control group: They received the routine education of the hospital. After one month and after completing the questionnaires, the nutrition educational booklet was also provided to the control group.
Primary outcome(s): Nutritional status score with PG-SGA questionnaire. Timepoint: At the beginning of the study (before the intervention) and one month after the educational intervention. Method of measurement: Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA).
Study Design: Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Education/Guidance, Randomization description: Recruiting was done when patients went to the hospital and clinic for chemotherapy. Then the samples were randomly divided into two groups of 40 people with random allocation in the intervention (A) and control (B) groups. At first, the blocks of four were defined as follows: ABAB, BBAA, BABA, BAAB, AABB , ABBA, etc. and were placed in the envelope and numbered. The blocks were determined using a table of random numbers, and people were placed in two intervention and control groups according to A and B. Patient A was placed in the supportive educational intervention group through virtual social networks and patient B was placed in the control group.