Nutritional Risk Screening in Azorean Hospitalized Children: A Portuguese Validation Study
| Autor: | Isabel Sousa, Inês Mendes, Joana Lopes, Armando B Mendes, Franchini, Bela, Rita Carvalho |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 53, Iss 1 (2022) Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics; Vol. 53 No. 1 (2022) Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics; Vol. 53 N.º 1 (2022) CIÊNCIAVITAE Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 2184-4453 2184-3333 |
| DOI: | 10.25754/pjp.2022.19956 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Malnutrition risk screening identifies patients who clinically benefit from a nutrition support. STRONGKids is a malnutrition-screening tool developed to identify the malnutrition risk in paediatric ages. According to the Portuguese law, screening for malnutrition is mandatory at admission in all National Health Service Hospitals.20,21 and in paediatric ages STRONGKids is the tool that should be used. Although there are translations of STRONGKids into Portuguese language, to our knowledge, there aren’t any published studies that validate this tool for the Portuguese population. The aim of this study is to confirm the concurrent and prospective validity of STRONGKids in the hospitalized paediatric children, that live in the Portuguese Azores islands. Methodology: This cross-sectional study allowed, for a period of 5 months, to collect anthropometric measures, as well as to apply STRONGKids tool, in 299 hospitalized children at the paediatric ward, with ages between one and 211 months. Results: STRONGKids scores correlated negatively with weight for height Z-score of the patients (rS= -0,40, p Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2022) |
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