ong-term physical activity and fitness after pediatric burns

Completed

Conditions: brandwonden
burn injury
burns
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Registration Number: NL-OMON48389

Lead Sponsor: Martini Ziekenhuis

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 53

Inclusion Criteria

Eligible are children, adolescents, and young adults who were eligble for the
ePAF study from March 2014 to February 2017. These patients were between 6 and
18 years when they were admitted to one of the three Dutch burn centres with
(1) burns affecting 5% of total body surface area or more or (2) a length of
hospital stay of two weeks or more, or both.

Exclusion Criteria

- extensive morbidity unrelated to the burn injury, interfering with physical
fitness
- insufficient proficiency in Dutch (children and/or their parents) to the
extent that clear communication is not possible
- no signed informed consent (by the parents and/or children 12 years and
older)
* patients with a contra-indication for exercse testing will not perform the
cycling test, however, may otherwise be included

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Exercise capacity (expressed as peak power output (POpeak) and POpeak divided<br /><br>by body weight (POpeak/kg)) 5 years after discharge.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>5 years after discharge:<br /><br>* Physical fitness<br /><br>* Grip strength<br /><br>- Force (kg)<br /><br>* Flexibility<br /><br>- Range of motion (degrees) of major joints<br /><br>* Body composition<br /><br>- BMI (kg/m2)<br /><br>- Waist circumference (cm)<br /><br>* Physical activity<br /><br>- Score on activity questionnaire Beweeggedrag<br /><br>- Accelerometry (counts, daily time spent in various activity<br /><br>intensities)<br /><br>* Health-Related Quality of life<br /><br>- Score on the Burn Outcome Questionnaire<br /><br>- Score on the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale<br /><br><br /><br>To establish how well children are doing, the above parameters will be compared<br /><br>to Dutch age and sex-matched reference values. Furthermore, the study<br /><br>parameters will be adjusted for confounders.</p><br>