Clinical trial NCT06303999: Effect of Oral Enteral Nutrition on Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
Official title: Oral Versus Nasal Enteral Nutrition on Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Randomized Controlled Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases
Lead sponsor: Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-03-12
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: Nasogastric tube feeding (NGT) has been widely used in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) patients with dysphagia but has a significant risk of complications. Intermittent Oro-esophageal Tube Feeding (IOE) is an established enteral nutrition approach that can be used with comprehensive rehabilitation therapy. This study aims to explore the clinical effect of IOE vs. NGT on CSVD Patients with Dysphagia. Compared to NGT, IOE, as an enteral nutrition support mode, in CSVD Patients with Dysphagia who received comprehensive rehabilitation therapy, showed advantages in improvement in dysphagia, nutritional status, ADL, QOL, pneumonia, and adverse events, which should be considered as the preferred approach.

Detailed description: Nasogastric tube feeding (NGT) has been widely used in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) patients with dysphagia but has a significant risk of complications. Intermittent Oro-esophageal Tube Feeding (IOE) is an established enteral nutrition approach that can be used with comprehensive rehabilitation therapy. This study aims to explore the clinical effect of IOE vs. NGT on CSVD Patients with Dysphagia.

This was a randomized controlled study with 60 CSVD Patients with Dysphagia who received comprehensive rehabilitation therapy. Patients enrolled were randomly divided into the observation group (with IOE, n=30) and the control group (with NGT, n=30). At admission and after treatment, Video Fluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS) and Functional Oral Intake Scale (FOIS), body mass index (BMI), serum albumin (Alb), and hemoglobin (Hb), Modified Barthel Index (MBI) and World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) were recruited to assess and compare dysphagia, nutritional status, activities of daily living (ADL) and quality of life (QOL). The incidence of pneumonia was recorded and compared.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Clinical diagnosis of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease;
* Must be able to cooperate with treatment and questionnaire investigation;
* Clinical diagnosis of dysphagia through the Functional Oral Intake Scale (FOIS) and Video Fluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS);
* Age between 40 and 70 years;
* Enteral nutrition support was required and feasible.
* No history of prior stroke.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Dysphagia related to other cerebrovascular diseases or caused by neurodegenerative diseases;
* Complicated with severe liver and kidney failure, tumors, or hematological disorders;
* Simultaneously need to undergo other therapy that might affect the outcomes of this study;
* Pregnant or nursing females.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Functional Oral Intake Scale
timeFrame: day 1 and day 15
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Body mass index
timeFrame: day 1 and day 15
measure: Serum albumin
timeFrame: day 1 and day 15
measure: Hemoglobin
timeFrame: day 1 and day 15
measure: Pneumonia
timeFrame: day 1 and day 15
measure: Activities of daily living
timeFrame: day 1 and day 15
measure: World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument Brief Version
timeFrame: day 1 and day 15
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pengfu
country: Taiwan
facility: Huimin Hos.
Study officials:
affiliation: Site Coordinator of United Medical Group
name: Nieto Luis, Master
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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