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Nutritional Care After Discharge in Children Term Born-18years Old

NCT06414200 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 260

Last updated 2024-05-16

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Summary

The goal of this stepped wedge cluster randomized trial is to compare nutritional care after discharge to an intervention in children term born - 18 years old discharged with newly initiated nutritional care.

The main question it aims to answer is:

To investigate whether a tailored nutritional care follow-up program in children who are being discharged from the hospital with nutritional support improves nutritional intake and status as well as feeding behavior and quality of life (QoL) in children and their parents. Furthermore, the effect on parental stress, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress (PTSD) as well as QoL will be assessed with and without a tailored nutritional care follow-up program

Conditions

  • Malnutrition, Child

Interventions

OTHER

multidisciplinary structured tailored made nutritional advice

The goal is a structured follow-up after discharge. Parents need to fill in questionnaires about eating behavior en feeding difficulties about their child. They also need to fill in a questionnaire about their stress. Together with their nutritional intake (3-days food diary) and growth a tailor-made nutritional plan is made. All the information I showed in a dashboard and discussed it with their dietitian. Who discusses this information in a multi-disciplinary team (pediatrician, psychologist and if needed a speech therapist).

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sascha C Verbruggen · Erasmus Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Days
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-12-01
Primary Completion
2026-03-31
Completion
2027-03-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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