Multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment nutritional support intervention for gastrointestinal tumor radiotherapy: Impact on nutrition and quality of life

Table 5 Quality of life difference between the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment and control groups

		MDT group	Control group	H/t	P value
Total score	Before	29.57 ± 0.59	30.53 ± 0.57	1.259	0.208
	After	47.90 ± 1.37	40.30 ± 1.03	3.814	0.000
Functional scale
Somatic function	Before	68.96 ± 0.68	67.87 ± 1.40	-0.126	0.900
	After	83.23 ± 0.58	77.40 ± 0.96	4.057	0.000
Role function	Before	62.06 ± 1.74	59.93 ± 0.74	-0.051	0.959
	After	72.77 ± 1.01	69.03 ± 1.32	2.245	0.025
Emotional function	Before	47.87 ± 0.78	46.60 ± 0.67	1.235	0.222
	After	67.03 ± 1.11	55.63 ± 0.87	5.729	0.000
Cognitive function	Before	49.56 ± 0.35	49.07 ± 0.31	-1.205	0.228
	After	65.27 ± 1.21	62.90 ± 1.09	1.37	0.168
Social function	Before	53.53 ± 0.99	52.10 ± 0.88	-1.052	0.293
	After	63.13 ± 1.16	62.67 ± 1.04	0.393	0.695
Symptom scale
Pain score	Before	69.93 ± 1.72	73.23 ± 1.67	1.442	0.149
	After	51.80 ± 1.35	64.33 ± 1.91	-4.492	0.000
Fatigue score	Before	73.63 ± 1.47	72.10 ± 1.28	1.220	0.204
	After	47.53 ± 1.58	52.70 ± 1.40	-2.020	0.043
Nausea and vomiting score	Before	54.16 ± 0.95	55.53 ± 0.82	1.246	0.213
	After	34.57 ± 0.51	45.97 ± 1.29	8.193	0.000

MDT: Multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment.