Causes and Underlying Factors of Faltering Growth Among Infants

Infants Aged One Month to 2 Years , Infants With Any Type of Feeding (Breast or Artificial or Weaned Attend Assiut University Children Hospital ) Clinical Trial

Official title:

Causes and Underlying Factors of Faltering Growth Among Infants

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03283215
• Other study ID #: IRB00008717
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 29, 2017
• Last updated: September 14, 2017
• Start date: October 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: Assiut University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

to research in the different causes of failure to thrive in children including organic and non organic causes

Description:

Altered growth velocity in infants has been traditionally described by the term (failure to thrive ) . More recently the preferred terms are faltering growth ,slow weight gain or undernourishment as failure to thrive has been associated with negative connotations of parents failing in their job as careproviders.

The expression 'to falter' means to hesitate. Faltering growth is an observation,without value judgement, of slower than expected rate of growth along an infant's previously defined growth curve.

Faltering growth is a common pediatric problem with many untoward effects . More studies showed that children who failed to thrive in infancy are lighter and shorter at school age with adverse intellectual outcomes (corbett and drewett,2004)(Natale etal., 2014). Weight faltering in the first months of life is particularly associated with these adverse effects.

Infants with faltering growth also have a higher prevalence of feeding problems (Young etal., 2013).Growth failure is more common during infancy than during any other stage of life because programmed growth rates and nutritional needs are high (

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 1 Month to 2 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

:Infants attending assiut university children hospital who are stunting(decrease height for age ), wasting(decrease weight for lenght ), and underweight (decreases weight for age ) . When all of theses less than -1 Z scores (normal Z-score from -1 to +1 ) . Also mid arm circumference below than 115 mm

Exclusion criteria:

Children complaining of any of the follolowing:

• Malignancy

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Infants Aged One Month to 2 Years , Infants With Any Type of Feeding (Breast or Artificial or Weaned Attend Assiut University Children Hospital )

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• complete blood count , electrolytes
it is a labarotory test to assess hemoglobin white blood count plate let

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assiut University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	to recognize nutritional causes of faltering growth	o recognize nutritional causes of faltering growth by measuring weight ,height ,mid arm circumference ,skin fold thickness	from october 2017 to september 2018