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- Title
Functional Evaluation of Eating Difficulties Scale to predict oral motor skills in infants with neurodevelopmental disorders: a longitudinal study.
- Authors
Cavallini, Anna; Provenzi, Livio; Scotto Di Minico, Giunia; Sacchi, Daniela; Gavazzi, Lidia; Amorelli, Valeria; Borgatti, Renato
- Abstract
<bold>Aim: </bold>To assess the predictive validity of the Functional Evaluation of Eating Difficulties Scale (FEEDS) on long-term eating developmental outcomes in infants with neurodevelopmental disorders.<bold>Method: </bold>In total, 144 infants (69 females, 75 males) aged 0 to 12 months (mean [SD] 5.34mo [3.42]) with neurodevelopmental disorders and requiring enteral nutrition support, hospitalized between January 2004 and December 2017, were included. The FEEDS was administered at the onset of hospitalization. Follow-up evaluations of feeding modalities occurred at discharge and at 6 months, 12 months, and 24 months after discharge. FEEDS score was tested as a predictor of infants' feeding modality (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, nasogastric tube, mixed, oral feeding) and time to autonomous oral feeding. Percentages of false-positive and negative cases were checked.<bold>Results: </bold>Lower FEEDS scores significantly predicted infants' feeding modality (0.40≤R2 ≤0.61). A 1-point increase in FEEDS score was associated with increased risk (6%-14%; p<0.05) of being non-autonomous feeders at the different follow-up points in infants who had a FEEDS score above the clinical cut-off.<bold>Interpretation: </bold>The FEEDS appears to be a clinically valid assessment to predict the presence of eating difficulties in infants with neurodevelopmental disabilities.<bold>What This Paper Adds: </bold>Functional Evaluation of Eating Difficulties Scale (FEEDS) significantly predicted eating difficulties in infants with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Lower FEEDS score is significantly associated with autonomous feeding at the 24-month follow-up. FEEDS cut-off identified infants at low-risk and high-risk for eating disorder.
- Subjects
MOTOR ability; PERCUTANEOUS endoscopic gastrostomy; INFANTS; LONGITUDINAL method; NASOENTERAL tubes; COMPARATIVE studies; DIAGNOSTIC errors; FUNCTIONAL assessment; ENTERAL feeding; HOSPITAL care; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MOUTH; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2019, Vol 61, Issue 7, p813
- ISSN
0012-1622
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/dmcn.14154