ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1598962
Title：Evaluation of malnutrition risk screening in hospitalized children with digestive system diseases -a single-center cross sectional study
Provisionally accepted
- Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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To assess the malnutrition risk of hospitalized children with digestive system diseases and provide evidence for clinical nutritional support.In this single-enter cross sectional study, the modified pediatric malnutrition risk screening tool was used to assess the malnutrition risk of pediatric patients hospitalized for digestive system diseases from January 2024 to June 2024. Screening was carried out within 24 hours after admission, and scores ≥ 4 was considered as high risk of malnutrition, < 4 as non-high risk of malnutrition. We collected the data in all children involving in age, gender, malnutrition risk, nutritional support and clinical outcomes. SPSS software package (version 23.0) was used for data processing.RESULTS:A total of 1,200 children aged 1 month to 18 years were included in this study. The incidence of malnutrition risk in the all hospitalized children was 53.17%, and the percentage of high malnutrition risk was 13.67%. There was a significant difference in incidence of high malnutrition risk between different disease (P<0.01).The difference in nutritional support rate (P<0.05) and outcomes (P<0.05) was also significant in patients with different degree of malnutrition risk. CONCLUSIONS: Timely, standardized and comprehensive nutritional assessment is crucial importance for reasonable nutritional interventions to improve clinical outcomes in children with high malnutrition risk.
Keywords: nutrition risk screening, Nutritional intervention, Modified pediatric malnutrition risk screening tool, hospitalized children, STAMP (Screening test for antibiotics in medicinal plants)
Received: 24 Mar 2025; Accepted: 28 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 yu, Yu, Jing, Tian, Lin, Ju and Dai. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Li Xiao yu, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
Dongling Dai, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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