The Pediatric Eating Assessment Tool

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: SWALLOWING EVALUATION; Other: The PEDI-EAT-10; Other: The Functional Independence Measure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02909127

PEDI-EAT-10

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is no dysphagia spesific and patient/parent centered outcome instrument in the pediatric population. The purpose of this investigation is to develop the Pediatric version of the Eating Assessment Tool (PEDI-EAT-10) and investigate its validity and reliability.

Full description

The evaluation of pediatric swallowing disorders includes clinical and instrumental techniques. The clinical evaluation is important for clinical decision-making and to assess the need for an instrumental evaluation of swallowing. A recent systematic review suggested that the currently available non-instrumental assessments for clinicians to evaluate swallowing and feeding function in the pediatric population have wide variations in design, assessment domains, and target groups. It was concluded that there is a significant need for standardized assessment tools with good psychometric properties in the pediatric population. The existing instruments measure the presence or absence and frequency of challenges related to eating/feeding problems in pediatrics, they do not comprehensively measure oropharyngeal phase swallowing problems or do not reflect the severity of oropharyngeal dysphagia symptoms. The 10-item Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10), which was designed for adult patients, is a good model for this current research. It has proven highly successful in quantifying initial dysphagia symptom severity and in monitoring treatment efficacy in a vast array of dysphagia etiologies. Although the EAT-10 is a symptom survey, it has been able to predict objective evidence of swallowing dysfunction. There is no dysphagia spesific and patient/parent centered outcome instrument in the pediatric population such as the EAT-10. The purpose of this investigation is to develop the Pediatric version of the Eating Assessment Tool (PEDI-EAT-10) and investigate its validity and reliability.

Enrollment: 138 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

The inclusion criteria are:

• Age above 18 months,
• Fed orally,
• Referred due to parent complaints about their child's swallowing function,
• Not admitted a swallowing center before.

The exclusion criteria are:

• Age below 18 months,
• Fed nonorally,
• No parent complaints about their child's swallowing function,
• Admitted a swallowing center before.

Trial design

138 participants in 2 patient groups

Cerebral palsied children

Description:

The inclusion criteria are age above 18 months, fed orally, referred due to parent complaints about their child's swallowing function and not admitted a swallowing center before. Swallowing evaluation will be performed. The Functional Independence Measure and PEDI-EAT-10 will be filled.

Treatment:

Other: SWALLOWING EVALUATION

Other: The Functional Independence Measure

Other: The PEDI-EAT-10

Healthy children

Description:

Healthy children above the age of 18 months with no medical history of voice, swallowing, reflux, airway, neurologic, rheumatologic, or neoplastic disorders will be included for normative data generation. The PEDI-EAT-10 will be filled.

Treatment:

Other: The PEDI-EAT-10