• Department of General Surgery, Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215200, P. R. China;
XIAO Peihua, Email: xph22@163.com
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Objective  To explore the latent classes of the change trajectory of postoperative nutritional literacy in gastric cancer patients, and to analyze its influencing factors. Methods A total of 243 patients with primary gastric cancer who underwent radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer in the Department of General Surgery of Suzhou Ninth People’s Hospital from January 2023 to March 2025 were selected by convenience sampling. The basic data of patients were collected by general information table and Herth hope scale. The nutritional literacy questionnaire was used to evaluate the nutritional literacy of patients on the day of discharge (T0), 1 month after surgery (T1), 3 months after surgery (T2), and 6 months after surgery (T3). Using latent growth mixture model to identify the latent categories of changes in nutritional literacy trajectory, and explore the influencing factors of postoperative nutritional literacy changes in gastric cancer patients through unordered multi-class logistic regression analysis. Results A total of 202 gastric cancer patients completed this study, and their nutritional literacy scores at T0, T1, T2 and T3 were (19.06±1.63), (20.60±2.17), (22.04±2.91) and (23.36±3.57) points respectively, the points were gradually increasing over time (F=96.912, P<0.001). Latent growth mixture model fitting identified three valid latent classes: low literacy-stable group (38 cases), medium literacy-slow increase group (104 cases) and medium literacy-rapid increase group (60 cases). A multi-class logistic regression analysis was conducted using the medium literacy-slow increase group as a control, which showed that: ① older age (OR=1.105, P=0.015), no participation in internet nutrition intervention (OR=3.496, P=0.003), lower Herth hope scale score (OR=0.832, P=0.042) were associated with the formation of low literacy-stable trajectory in patients with gastric cancer after surgery. ② High educational attainment (OR=0.417, P=0.021), presence of nutritional risk before surgery (OR=2.330, P=0.017), higher Herth hope scale score (OR=1.151, P=0.035) were associated with the formation of a medium literacy-rapid increase in gastric cancer patients after surgery. Conclusions There is group heterogeneity in postoperative nutritional literacy among gastric cancer patients and medical staff should take targeted measures to improve patients’ nutritional literacy based on the group characteristics and influencing factors of the patient’s nutritional literacy change trajectory.

Citation: WANG Ying, WU Xiaojuan, FAN Jingjing, HONG Pei, XIAO Peihua. Analysis of the trajectory and influencing factors of postoperative nutritional literacy changes in gastric cancer patients. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2026, 33(3): 354-361. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202510047 Copy

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