Background: Nutritional assessment is considered to be an important element in the nutrition care process of cancer patients, since nutritional status is positively associated with health outcome. The Scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is a multidimensional nutritional assessment tool, developed for the oncology setting1. The PG-SGA was originally developed in English and until now an official Dutch translation was not available. We primarily aimed to develop a cross-cultural adaptation of the PG-SGA for the Dutch setting.
Methods: The study design was developed conform the " Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaption Process for Patient Reported Outcomes” by the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)2.
Results: The patients reported excellent understanding of the Dutch translated PG-SGA and perceived the items as easy to fill in. Comprehensibility of the items completed by the professionals was experienced as 'acceptable’, but they also experienced the items as difficult to complete. Professionals deemed the overall PG-SGA to be relevant and appropriate in the assessment of malnutrition in oncology patients. Overall, the professionals considered layout and time-consuming nature as barriers for applying the Dutch PG-SGA in daily practice.
Conclusion: The Dutch cross-cultural adaptation of the PG-SGA was considered easy and was well understood by patients. Professionals evaluated the PG-SGA as relevant, but had some issues with lay out, elaborateness and difficulty of items regarding physical examination. To increase the accessibility and applicability of the PG-SGA for clinicians, training of these professionals is needed.
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