Causes and Underlying Factors of Faltering Growth Among Infants

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

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Infants Aged One Month to 2 Years , Infants With Any Type of Feeding (Breast or Artificial or Weaned Attend Assiut University Children Hospital )
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: complete blood count , electrolytes

Detailed 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 (

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 100

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 1 month to 2 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

infants aged 1month upto 2 years infants with any type of feeding (breast , artificial or weaned)

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assiut University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): October 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 30, 2018
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 30, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 29, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 12, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): September 14, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 15, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 14, 2017
• Last Verified: August 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Failure to Thrive
• Other Study ID Numbers: IRB00008717

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No