Time to Reach Full Enteral Feeding and Its Predictors among Very Low Birth Weight Neonates Admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Cohort Study

Autor: Belay Alemayehu Getahun, Sileshi Mulatu, Hailemariam Mekonnen Workie
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, Vol 2024 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2090-0732
DOI: 10.1155/2024/9384734
Popis: Background. Feeding is crucial for very low birth weight neonates to grow and develop properly. This study aims to determine the time to achieve full enteral feeding and predictors among neonates admitted at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital. Methods. An institutional retrospective follow-up study design was conducted among 332 very low birth weight neonates from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2021. Samples were selected through a computer-generated simple random sampling method, and the data were entered into Epi data version 4.6 and then exported to STATA version 16 for analysis. Kaplan–Meier with the log-rank test was used to test for the presence of difference in survival among predictor variables. Model goodness of fit and assumptions were checked by the Cox–Snell residual and the global test, respectively. Variables with p value
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