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Assessment of a Feeding Difficulties Diagnostic Tool Questionnaire For Children With Oral Feeding Resistance

NCT02377596 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL

Last updated 2015-03-03

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Summary

Our long term objective is to enhance the pediatrician's management of children with feeding difficulties in a primary care office-based pediatric practice setting. A prerequisite is to rapidly reach an accurate diagnosis so that appropriate therapy can be applied. To improve the efficiency and accuracy of the diagnostic interview the investigators have designed a Feeding Difficulty Diagnostic Tool (FDDT) consisting of a set of questions that fit beneath a 'diagnostic cover' and prompts for basic information. Depending on the answers rendered on the questionnaire particular diagnoses noted on the cover are flagged for consideration.

In this study our specific objectives are 1) to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using the FDDT in the pediatrician's office and 2) to obtain preliminary data on the reliability of using the instrument in the diagnosis and management of children with feeding difficulties.

* Feasibility and acceptability are often interrelated and will be assessed in a broad sense by questionnaires that ascertain, for example, the amount of time needed by parents and staff to fill in and use the FDDT questionnaire, the ease and difficulties encountered in filling out the FDDT questionnaire and the understanding of the questionnaire by the parents.
* Reliability relates to the usefulness of the FDDT questionnaire for the pediatrician in obtaining and organizing the information obtained from the history and physical including anthropometric data to reach a correct diagnosis, the latter being judged in this study against the diagnosis reached independently by trained experts in pediatric feeding difficulties using a modification of their standard diagnostic interview. The frequency of presentation of the various diagnostic sub-categories and the extent of the discrepancy between the conclusions suggested by the FDDT, the pediatrician, and the feeding disorder experts is unknown. Therefore' this pilot study is needed to help determine the sample size necessary to power a more definitive study of the diagnostic tool's accuracy, if necessary. The investigators anticipate that at least three of the categories (children with excessive selectivity, children with demonstrably poor appetite who are vigorous and free of organic disease, and those misperceived to have feeding limitations) will be well represented in this preliminary study.

Conditions

  • Feeding Difficulties
  • Feeding and Eating Disorders of Childhood

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Abbott Nutrition

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Benny Kerzner, MD

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Benny Kerzner, MD · Children's National Research Institute

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Months
Max Age
60 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-12-31
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2014-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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