Results
Participant Demographics
Sixty-eight participants were approached and invited to participate in
this study. Surveys were distributed to 67 parents/carers of paediatric
cancer patients. Sixty-four participants completed the 24-hour recall
and questionnaire representing a 94% response rate. Of the surveys
returned, three were excluded from the analysis as one was a duplicate,
one paediatric patient was on maintenance treatment, and one child had
turned 18 during the survey and did not provide their own consent,
resulting in a sample size of sixty-one. Demographic information (Table
1) showed mean age (SD) of the childhood cancer patients was 8 (±4.47)
years. The majority children (68%) were a healthy weight for their
height and 3%, 12% and 14% were considered underweight, overweight
and obese respectively.