The Reliable Nutritional Risk Screening Tools

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

• 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).

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Malnutrition, Child
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: stong,stamp,pyms

Detailed 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.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 150

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 2 years to 5 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

• no

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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
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
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

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assiut University

Publications and helpful links

Helpful 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.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): September 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 26, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 29, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): March 31, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 31, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 29, 2023
• Last Verified: March 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Nutrition Disorders; Malnutrition; Child Nutrition Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: malnutrition in children

Drug and device information, study documents

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