The Reliable Nutritional Risk Screening Tools

Malnutrition, Child Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Reliable Nutritional Risk Screening Tools in Children Aged (2-5) Years Old Admitted to Assiut University Children Hospital

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05792514
• Other study ID #: malnutrition in children
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: September 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 2023

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Assiut University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

• assess the subjective global validity and reliability of using The Pediatric Yorkhil Malnutrition Score (PYMs) and merits of using the Screening Tool for Risk on Nutritional status and Growth (STRONGkids) as a nutrition screening tool

• correlate it with the severity of their nutritional derangements in comparison to the Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics (STAMP)in hospitalized Egyptian children aged (2-5)years in Assiut University Children Hospital (AUCH).

Description:

Malnutrition is responsible for around 3.1 million child deaths annually in low and middle income countries,the malnutrition is involved in about 45% of under-five children deaths in numerous developing countries.

Malnutrition is associated with negative outcomes for inpatients, including increased risks of infections , increased muscle loss , impaired wound healing, longer hospital stay and increased morbidity and mortality .

Malnutrition may be responsible for delayed recovery and need for intensive nursing care, thus increasing the cost of hospitalization .

Nutritional support for inpatients has made progress and it is provided systematically through multidisciplinary nutritional support teams (NSTs) in most hospitals. The first step to run and manage the NST effectively and efficiently in each hospital may be proper screening and selection of the patients who are at risk of malnutrition requiring nutritional support during hospitalization Routine nutritional screening is rarely carried out in pediatric patients because of the lack of a simple and properly validated nutritional screening tool. The current practice of identifying children at risk of malnutrition is reliant on interpretation of anthropometric data and clinical judgement; the reliability of which is dependent on nutritional knowledge of pediatricians .

Severe cases of malnutrition are easily recognized; however, the identification of children with lesser degrees of malnutrition or at risk of malnutrition, which is also important, is not as easily achieved.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: December 2023
• Est. primary completion date: September 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 2 Years to 5 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• all patients at the age of 2-5 years admitted in Assiut university children's hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• no

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Child Nutrition Disorders
• Malnutrition
• Malnutrition, Child

Intervention

Other:
• stong,stamp,pyms
STRONG(screening tool for risk of nutritional status and growth) STAMP(screening tool assessment of malnutrition in pediatrics) PYMS

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assiut University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	the reliable nutritional risk screening tools in diseased children aged (2_5) years old admitted to Assiut University Children Hospital	asses the merits of using the Screening Tool for Risk on Nutritional status and Growth (STRONGkids) as a nutrition screening tool	2 years
Primary	the Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics	asses the merits of using the the Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics (STAMP) in hospitalized Egyptian children aged (2-5)years in Assiut University Children Hospital (AUCH).	2 years
Primary	using The Peduatric Yorkhil Malnutrition score	asses the subjective global validity and reliability of using The Pediatric Yorkhil Malnutrition Score (PYMs) in hospitalized Egyptian children aged (2-5)years in Assiut University Children Hospital (AUCH).	2 years

External Links

•   1. ELSARY A.Y., ABD EL-MOKTADER A.M., ELGA MEEL A., MOHAMMED W.S., MASOUD M. and ABD EL-HALEEM N.G.: Nutritional survey among under five children at Tamyia district in Fayoum, Egypt. Int. J. Community Med. Public Health, 4 (6): 1813-8, 2017. Magnitude 2.