title: Validity of the Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire for Japanese Patients with Cancer Undergoing Outpatient Chemotherapy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the utility of the Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire (SNAQ) in the nutritional evaluation of patients with cancer undergoing outpatient chemotherapy.
  
  
  METHODS
  We included 229 patients with cancer who were undergoing outpatient chemotherapy between October 2015 and April 2016. The SNAQ and the revised SNAQ (addition of age and body mass index) were implemented, and their relationships with Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT), an indicator of bionutritional assessment, were examined.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The cutoff value of the SNAQ score corresponding to moderate-to-severe undernourishment in CONUT values was 0.5, with a sensitivity of 87.5% and a specificity of 65.9%, and the corresponding values for the revised SNAQ score were 2.5, 91.7%, and 62.9%, respectively. This cutoff value and the corresponding positive prediction value for the revised SNAQ were superior to those of SNAQ. Binary logistic regression analysis with the revised SNAQ and sex as independent variables and the CONUT value as the dependent variable revealed that the higher the SNAQ score, the more likely it was that CONUT moderate-to-severe undernourishment would be identified (odds ratio, 1.48;, 1.34-1.96).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nutritional evaluation with the revised SNAQ can predict moderate-to-severe undernourishment according to CONUT in patients with cancer undergoing outpatient chemotherapy. J. Med. Invest. 64: 117-121, February, 2017.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.
authors.forename: Kiyomi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: Kiyo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ochi
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Terukazu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Motohiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
authors.forename: Naohisa
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authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Neriya
authors.forename: Masami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okagaki
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: Yukie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takishita
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Sayori
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuwahata
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yokota
authors.forename: Keiko
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authors.lastname: Sekido
authors.forename: Akane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Higashi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents