Chewing Function in Pediatric Neuromuscular Disorders

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mastication Disorder

Treatments: Other: Chewing evaluation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03116620

Chewing in pediatric NMD

Details and patient eligibility

About

We aimed to evaluate chewing function (CF) in children with neuromuscular disorders, and investigate reliability of the Karaduman Chewing Performance Scale (KCPS).

Full description

Chewing disorders (CD) can be seen due to muscle weakness in children with neuromuscular disorders neuromuscular disorders (NMD). Normal diet consists of all food consistencies including liquid, pudding and solid foods, and CD causes inability to intake solid food. This condition can affect development, nutritional behavior and child-parent interaction in children. Thus, it is important to determine CD in an early period with appropriate assessment methods and plan appropriate therapies in NMD. We aimed to evaluate chewing function (CF) in children with NMD, and investigate reliability of the Karaduman Chewing Performance Scale (KCPS).

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 20 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children above the age of 2 years
• Children with neuromuscular disorders

Exclusion criteria

• Children under the age of 2 years
• Children without neuromuscular disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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68 participants in 1 patient group

Chewing evaluation

Experimental group

Description:

Children with neuromuscular disorders (NMD) will be participated. Children will be asked to chew a standardized biscuit while video recording. Two physical therapists will assess all video recordings independently and score each video according to the KCPS. The correlation between the KCPS scores of two therapists will be used for interobserver reliability. One therapist will rescore the recordings after an interval of 2 weeks for intraobserver reliability.

Treatment:

Other: Chewing evaluation