Sample characteristics
A total of 186 patients completed 218 assessments in the acute phase and 208 in the delayed phase of their chemotherapy regimens. This count included 41% female patients whose average age was 6.46 years. The complete demographics are provided in Table 1. Approximately 53% of the surveys were completed with inpatients, while the remaining 47% with outpatients. The most common diagnoses were leukemia/lymphomas (55.5%), followed by solid tumors (28.4%) and central nervous system (CNS) tumors (16.1%). The overall distribution of the types of chemotherapy regimens is provided in table 1, with moderately and highly emetogenic regimens accounting for 70% of them.