Clinical and Instrumental Evaluation of Swallowing in Children With Cerebral Palsy (CP)

Fortaleza University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy; Deglutition Disorders

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01031771

105/09

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to correlate the alimentary consistencies and deglutition disorders in children with cerebral palsy.

Full description

Cross-sectional and quantitative study with sample consisted of 50 children with cerebral palsy. The data collection consisted in detection of the main dysphagic manifestations in different consistency of food and types of cerebral palsy.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 5 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with Cerebral Palsy diagnoses were involved, independent from the pre, peri and postnatal factors and from the type of Cerebral Palsy

Exclusion criteria

• Children who presented oropharyngelarynx structural abnormality and/or impossibility to feed by oral way