An observational study in Compare Two Nutrition Screening Tools, sponsored by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 2 Years to 16 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-04-26.
Sponsored by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · Observational
Researchers are studying ways to predict if cancer patients are at risk for poor nutrition during their chemotherapy treatment. They hope to identify children with nutrition problems early in treatment. This may help prevent weight loss and other nutrition problems later in treatment.
The PEDSGA is a newly developed nutrition tool that includes a training manual that be used to teach health care professionals to identify at-risk patients by doing a nutrition physical exam. The PEDSGA also includes questions that the patient/caregiver answers regarding appetite, recent treatment, and activity level. This method of screening is new and may be able to identify at-risk patients better than the standard method. This study will use both methods and evaluate the two, in hope of determining which method works best to identify at-risk patients.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is the lead sponsor of 434 studies on the registry; 99 are open to participants now.
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Participant is between 2 and 16 years of age and receiving treatment for a hematologic or solid malignancy at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Inclusion Criteria:
Other: Nutritional Screening Tools
To compare the nutrition risk identification abilities of two nutrition screening tools: PEDSGA tool and the standard assessment tool.
To compare the ability of two nutrition screening tools to identify nutritionally at risk patients
Time frame: Within 90 days of study completion
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