Development and Testing of a Social Cognitive Theory-based Dietary Behavioral Intervention in Gastric Cancer Survivors

The intervention will last for four weeks and target six dietary behaviors related to gastric cancer. The intervention components include one session of face-to-face education prior to discharge and three sessions of telephone counselling after discharge. The face-to-face education will last for 20 to 30 minutes and each session of telephone counselling will last for 10 to 20 minutes. All the interventional sessions are individual based.

General dietary advice provided as routine by the ward nurses before discharge from the hospital.