Assessment of Body Composition in Premature Children Submitted to an Early Stimulation Program
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Preterm Birth
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- Enrollment
- 180
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Body composition
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a cross-sectional study of a randomized clinical trial to investigate nutritional aspects of pre-scholar aged children born preterm submitted to an early stimulation program versus conventional care program. The preterm-born children participated in the project entitle "Early Intervention Program for Preterm Infants and Their Parents: establishing the impact at 18 Months Corrected Age" (NCT02835612), which performed a continuous early stimulation in very and extremely preterm infant's families in their first 12 to 18 months. In the present study, preterm born children currently with 3 to 6 years old and their mothers (or legal guardian) are once more invited to a one-day visit for a nutritional and clinical evaluation at the Clinical Research Center of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre/Brazil. In the consultation, preterm born children and theirs mothers are submitted to the following exams: body composition by electrical bioimpedance, clinical and physical evaluation, anthropometric measurements, and children's eating habits, eating behavior and parental educational style in food through specific questionnaires. Moreover, this study will also investigate a group of pre-scholar health children born at term to obtain reference values for variables analysed. The goal with these findings is to determine if an early stimulation program could present a positive impact in anthropometric outcomes and nutritional aspects in this more vulnerable preterm born population.
Detailed Description
The main goal of the present study is to investigate anthropometric and physical measurements of pre-scholar aged children born preterm and their parents submitted to an early stimulation program, as well as to investigate children's eating practices, children's eating behavior and parental educational style in feeding. This currently study is a segment of a previous project entitle: Early Intervention Program for Preterm Infants and Their Parents: establishing the impact at 18 Months Corrected Age (NCT02835612), which performed a continuous early stimulation in very preterm infant's families in their first 12 to 18 months. The previous study randomized preterm born children less than 32 weeks of gestational age and/or very low birth weight at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) - a tertiary hospital in south Brazil, in the following two groups: CONVENTIONAL GROUP (CG) that received standard care (skin-to skin care by mother, kangaroo care, and breast feeding policy) according to the routine care of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and, after NICU discharge, they were referred for a traditional follow up clinic taking care of the demands according to their necessity. INTERVENTION GROUP (IG): Skin-to skin care by mother, kangaroo care, breastfeeding policy plus massage therapy were made by the mothers until hospital discharge. After discharge, they received standard follow up care plus orientation for a continuous global simulation at home. The early intervention was performed according to developmental milestones, anticipating in one month evolutional step acquisition of motor and/or cognitive expected for corrected age. Besides that, we have a total of 10 home visits promoting guidance and supervision sessions. In the present study, preterm born children aging between 3 to 6 years old and their mothers (or legal guardian) are once more invited to a one-day visit in the Clinical Research Center of HCPA for nutritional and clinical evaluation. In the visiting day, research participants are submitted to the following exams: body composition by electrical bioimpedance (InBody 770), anthropometric measurements (weight, height, skinfold thickness), clinical and physical evaluation (6 minutes walt test) and children's eating habits, eating behavior and parental educational style in food through specific questionnaires, such as Behavioral Pediatrics Feeding Assessment Scale (BPFAS), Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) and Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire (CFSQ). Data from neonatal period and from the follow up in the clinical care will also be analysed to associate with current nutritional and clinical findings. In addition to preterm population, a group of term born health children and their mother will be invited to participate with the goal to access reference values of the parameters investigated. This group of term born children (\>37 weeks of gestational age and/or birth weight \>2500g) will be recruited from the daycare of our hospital institution. It is expect with these findings to determine if an early stimulation program could present a positive impact in anthropometric outcomes and nutritional aspects of our more vulnerable preterm born population.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Preterm children born at HCPA (birth weight \<1500g and/or gestational age \<32 weeks); Term born children (\> 37 weeks of gestational age and/or birth weight \>2500g)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Congenital malformations
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Body composition
Time Frame: 1 day of evaluation
Body composition is evaluated by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) (InBody 770, Biospace Co Ltd). Each participant is positioned in an orthostatic position on a platform with lower electrodes for the feet and the hands holding onto upper electrodes. The measurement is performed after 2 hours fasting and diapers are changed before the evaluation.
Secondary Outcomes
- Feeding practice(1 day)
- Anthropometric evaluation of children and a parent respecting body weight.(1 day of evaluation)
- Anthropometric evaluation of children and a parent respecting circumferences.(1 day of evaluation)
- Child Eating Behaviour(1 day of evaluation)
- Nutritional Assessment in Behavioral Pediatrics(1 day of evaluation)
- Anthropometric evaluation of children and a parent respecting skinfold.(1 day of evaluation)
- Physical Activity questionnaire(1 day of evaluation)
- Physical capacity Assessment(1 day of evaluation)
- Individual differences in parenting feeding styles(1 day of evaluation)
- Z-score calculations of all participants using WHO ANTHRO program.(1 day of evaluation)
- Anthropometric evaluation of children and a parent respecting height.(1 day of evaluation)