Eating Experience at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Wards - a Qualitative Study

The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) Short Form will be filled in by the participants. Next, a semi-structured in-depth interview will be performed in a quiet environment. The interview will take a maximum of one hour and will take place once. Topics that will be discussed are eating-related problems, the taste and smell of the offered hospital food, the choice in hospital food, the ambience during the eating moments, the use of protein-enriched snacks, the difference between eating at home and at the hospital, personal tips- and-tricks to maintain adequate nutritional intake, and how patients' think that food enjoyment can be improved in the hospital. The interview will be recorded. At last, taste and smell will be objectively determined with respectively taste strips and Sniffin' Sticks.