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Abstract
Hepatitis C virus is a global challenge and it is one of the main causes of liver
disease worldwide and develops nutritional deficiencies. chronic hepatitis C infection
causing about 2.4 million deaths each year. It is important to assess the nutritional
status for this group of patients and design a nutritional regimen for them. The study
aim was to determine effect of dietary modification on nutritional status and quality
of life among patients with viral hepatitis C. Design: A quasi experimental research
design was utilized to achieve the aim of this study. Setting: The study was carried
out in outpatient clinics of Liver Institute at Shebin EL Kom District, Menoufia
Governorate. Subjects: A random sample of 160 adult patients of both sexes with
hepatitis C was selected and randomly divided into two equal groups. 80 patients for
each. Tools of the study: Three tools were used for data collection: structured
interviewing questionnaire, Nutritional assessment sheet and chronic liver disease
questionnaire-hcv. Results: it is revealed that there was significant improvement in
mean of carbohydrate and protein of study group 501.76±206.55 and 130.51±50.11
respectively at pre intervention to become 421.27±104.50 and 91.76±70.82 four
months post intervention than control group. There was significant improvement of
approximately all laboratory findings two and four months post intervention among
study group than control group. The mean score of body mass index pre intervention
was 29.12±3.65 kg/m2 for study group to become 28.55±3.36 kg/m2 four months post
intervention. Also 95.0% of patients of study group had low quality of life score pre
intervention to become 0% four months post intervention Conclusions: Nutritional
status and quality of life were significantly improved among patients of study group
than those who exposed only to the routine hospital care. Recommendations:
Supervised health educational program about dietary modifications should be carried
out for all patients with viral hepatitis C and illustrative booklet should be distributed
to all patients with viral hepatitis C.