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Nutritional Status and Family Strategies in Children With Cerebral Palsy.

NCT04179422 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2021-03-19

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Summary

Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the neurological disorders that most often generates disability in pediatric age. Children with CP have a very high nutritional risk since their motor dysfunction causes coordination dysfunction in the processes of sucking, chewing and swallowing, which lead to insufficient intake. There are other difficulties in relation to feeding, such as the time required for feeding and the presence of gastrointestinal disorders. In addition, the families of children with CP develop different strategies that allow them to face reality. This research plan seeks to investigate the relationships between the nutritional status of children and adolescents with CP, food intake and family behavior according to the strategies they develop. This study will be observational, cross-sectional descriptive. The population will consist of children and adolescents from 2 to 18 years 11 months with a diagnosis of CP and their families attending health institutions in Córdoba. The minimum sample size in 187 subjects was calculated for an expected prevalence of 25% of feeding difficulties for an alpha 0.05 and a beta 0.20. It will be a successive sampling, until the desired sample is completed. The variables studied will be: age, weight, height, nutritional status, sex, type of CP, caloric and macro nutrient intake, type and feeding time, clinical difficulties related to feeding and family strategies For data analysis, normal continuous variables will be described in means with their standard deviations, with non-normal distribution in medians with their interquartile ranges. The daily food intake and macro nutrients will be calculated using the Food Analysis and Registration System software (SARA1.2.25). The relationship between the average energy intake, the nutritional status of children with CP and family strategies will be described. Interpretation of the data will be carried out, showing the relationship between the different areas, analyzing the connectivity of the ideas with the nutritional status.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Nutrition Disorders
  • Child

Interventions

OTHER

anthropometric measurement

weight, height, BMI

OTHER

nutritional questionnaire

24hs food recall, presence of feeding disorders

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Eduardo Cuestas, PhD MD · Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-03-01
Primary Completion
2021-03-01
Completion
2022-10-30

Countries

  • Argentina

Study Locations

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