Profiling Children and Youth With Cerebral Palsy in Relation to Feeding and Nutrition

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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HCPs will complete questionnaires about their patients with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and invite parents/caregivers of these patients to fill in questionnaires as well. Questionnaires include questions on individualized treatment, nutritional profile and management, and patient characteristics.

Detailed Description
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Coordinating health care professionals (HCPs; e.g. paediatric neurologists, physiotherapists) in different centres across different countries will be asked to participate in this cross-sectional study. A) for the HCP to fill out a questionnaire about their CP child, related to general subject characteristics, motor function, co-morbidities, type of therapies, anthropometry, feeding mode and nutritional status; and B) for parents (/legal representatives) to receive and fill out questionnaires about their CP child and themselves, related to general subject characteristics, motor function, co-morbidities, type of therapies, anthropometry, feeding mode and nutritional status, participation and (their own) quality of life. If parents (/legal representatives) agree to A), but not B) then a subject will still enter the study, but without the parental assessment.

Official Title
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A Multi-country, Multi-centre, Observational, Cross-sectional Study to Evaluate Individualized Treatment and Management in Children and Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy

Conditions
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Cerebral Palsy

Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Confirmed diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy Age<18 years Have visited the HCP within the last year Written informed consent provided by parents/legal representatives according to local law Exclusion Criteria: Neurodegenerative diseases Acute infections: meningitis, encephalitis or poliomyelitis

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 1 Month
Maximum Age: 17 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Children and youth with cerebral palsy<br>Subjects between 1 month and 18 years of age with Cerebral Palsy who visited the coordinating HCP within the past 12 months. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Quantify current CP characteristics 1 (general subject characteristics): | Using questionnaires to quantify current CP characteristics with respect to: - General subject characteristics (e.g. Sex, Birth weight [g], Type of CP motor disorder [category] | Data collected retrospectively, from within 12 months of entering the questionnaire | 
| Quantify current CP characteristics 2 (anthropometry): | Using questionnaires to quantify current CP characteristics with respect to: Anthropometry: length [cm]; weight [grams] and BMI (kg/m2) | Data collected retrospectively, from within 12 months of entering the questionnaire | 
| Quantify current CP characteristics 3 (motor function) | Using questionnaires to quantify current CP characteristics with respect to: Motor function (GMFCS [category]; GMFM measurement type [GMFM-86/GMFM-88] | Data collected retrospectively, from within 12 months of entering the questionnaire | 
| Quantify current CP characteristics 4 (comorbidities) | Using questionnaires to quantify current CP characteristics with respect to: Comorbidities: epilepsy, cognitive function, GI problems [categories] | Data collected retrospectively, from within 12 months of entering the questionnaire | 
| Quantify current CP characteristics 5 (therapies) | Using questionnaires to quantify current CP characteristics with respect to: Type and frequency of physical/occupational therapy [type, number of hours per day /days per week] | Data collected retrospectively, from within 12 months of entering the questionnaire | 
| Quantify current CP characteristics 6 (feeding mode) | Using questionnaires to quantify current CP characteristics with respect to: Feeding mode and/or problems (tube feeding [yes/no], type of tube feeding etc) | Data collected retrospectively, from within 12 months of entering the questionnaire | 
| Quantify current CP characteristics 7 (nutritional status) | Using questionnaires to quantify current CP characteristics with respect to: Nutritional status (HCP and parent perspective on nutritional status, concerns [yes/no]) | Data collected retrospectively, from within 12 months of entering the questionnaire | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Cerebral Palsy