Causes and Underlying Factors of Faltering Growth Among Infants

• Conditions: Infants Aged One Month to 2 Years , Infants With Any Type of Feeding (Breast or Artificial or Weaned Attend Assiut University Children Hospital )

• Registration Number: NCT03283215
• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University

Brief Summary

to research in the different causes of failure to thrive in children including organic and non organic causes

Detailed Description

Altered growth velocity in infants has been traditionally described by the term (failure to thrive ) . More recently the preferred terms are faltering growth ,slow weight gain or undernourishment as failure to thrive has been associated with negative connotations of parents failing in their job as careproviders.

The expression 'to falter' means to hesitate. Faltering growth is an observation,without value judgement, of slower than expected rate of growth along an infant's previously defined growth curve.

Faltering growth is a common pediatric problem with many untoward effects . More studies showed that children who failed to thrive in infancy are lighter and shorter at school age with adverse intellectual outcomes (corbett and drewett,2004)(Natale etal., 2014). Weight faltering in the first months of life is particularly associated with these adverse effects.

Infants with faltering growth also have a higher prevalence of feeding problems (Young etal., 2013).Growth failure is more common during infancy than during any other stage of life because programmed growth rates and nutritional needs are high (

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2017-08
• Study First Submitted: 2017-08-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-09-12
• Study First Posted: 2017-09-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-09-14
• Last Update Posted: 2017-09-15
• Study Start: 2017-10-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-09-30
• Study Completion: 2018-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

:Infants attending assiut university children hospital who are stunting(decrease height for age ), wasting(decrease weight for lenght ), and underweight (decreases weight for age ) . When all of theses less than -1 Z scores (normal Z-score from -1 to +1 ) . Also mid arm circumference below than 115 mm

Exclusion criteria:

Children complaining of any of the follolowing:

• Malignancy

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Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
to recognize nutritional causes of faltering growth	from october 2017 to september 2018	o recognize nutritional causes of faltering growth by measuring weight ,height ,mid arm circumference ,skin fold thickness