Introduction
Methods
Assessment procedure
Instruments
Nutritional status
Malnutrition
Subjective health status
Statistical analysis
Results
Baseline characteristics
n = 642 | |
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Child characteristics | |
Gender, boy, n (%) | 385 (60) |
Median age (range) | 9.8 (4.2–13.4) |
Ethnic background: | |
White, n (%) | 461 (72) |
Disease characteristics, n (%) | |
High-risk disease, yes, n (%)a
| 193 (30) |
Medication usage, yes, n (%) | 419 (65) |
Steroids | 106 (17) |
Antibiotics | 25 (4) |
Diuretics | 15 (2) |
Other | 273 (42) |
Disease present at birth, n (%) | |
Yes | 250 (38.9) |
No | 218 (34.0) |
Missing | 174 (27.1) |
Sick leave last 3 months (n = 573), yes | 334 (58) |
Median days sick last 3 months (IQR) | 1 (0–4) |
Nutritional status
| |
Malnutrition, n (%) | |
Chronic malnutrition | 88 (13.8) |
Acute malnutrition | 19 (3.0) |
Overall malnutrition | 102 (16.0) |
Prediction of malnutrition, n (%) | |
Low risk | 381 (59.3) |
Moderate risk | 247 (38.5) |
High risk | 14 (2.2) |
Subjective health status
| |
Some/severe problems with, n (%) | |
Mobility | 96 (15.1) |
Self-care | 106 (16.6) |
Daily activities | 118 (18.6) |
Pain/discomfort | 137 (22.3) |
Anxiety/depression | 139 (22.0) |
Visual analogue scale, m (sd) | 73.0 (11.1) |
Malnutrition
Risk of malnutrition (STRONGkids)
Subjective health status
Problems | Subjective health status problems | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mobility n (%) | Self-care n (%) | Usual activities n (%) | Pain/discomfort n (%) | Anxiety/depression n (%) | ||||||
No | Some/severe | No | Some/severe | No | Some/severe | No | Some/severe | No | Some/severe | |
Malnutrition | ||||||||||
No | 458 (87)a
| 71 (13)a
| 450 (85)b
| 81 (15)b
| 428 (81) | 98 (19) | 399 (78) | 113 (22) | 411 (78) | 113 (22) |
Yes | 78 (76)a
| 24 (24)a
| 77 (76)b
| 24 (24)b
| 83 (81) | 19 (19) | 75 (77) | 23 (23) | 77 (75) | 25 (25) |
STRONGkids
| ||||||||||
No risk | 327 (87) | 50 (13) | 322 (85) | 55 (15) | 317 (84)c
| 59 (16)c
| 300 (83)d
| 63 (17)d
| 297 (80) | 76 (20) |
Moderate/high | 231 (83) | 46 (17) | 209 (80) | 51 (20) | 198 (77)c
| 59 (23)c
| 177 (71)d
| 74 (29)d
| 195 (76) | 63 (24) |
Chronic disease present at birth | ||||||||||
No | 194 (90)e
| 21 (10)e
| 195 (90)f
| 21 (10)f
| 193 (81)g
| 22 (19)g
| 170 (81) | 40 (19) | 167 (78) | 47 (22) |
Yes | 202 (81)e
| 46 (19)e
| 190 (77)f
| 58 (23)f
| 188 (77)g
| 56 (23)g
| 178 (76) | 56 (24) | 202 (82) | 43 (18) |
Medication usage | ||||||||||
No | 183 (83) | 37 (17) | 179 (81) | 43 (19) | 176 (80) | 44 (20) | 181 (84)h
| 34 (16)h
| 184 (84)i
| 35 (16)i
|
Yes | 357 (86) | 59 (14) | 352 (85) | 63 (15) | 339 (82) | 74 (18) | 296 (74)h
| 103 (26)h
| 308 (75)i
| 104 (25)i
|
Associations between nutritional status and subjective health status
Constant | Unstandardized β
| SE | Standardized β
|
p value | Multiple R
2
| |
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Model 1a
| ||||||
Malnutrition (1 = yes) | 69.5 | −2.9 | 1.2 | −.10 | <.01 | 0.35 |
Model 2a
| ||||||
Malnutrition (1 = yes) | 63.0 | −2.9 | 1.0 | −.10 | <.01 | 0.38 |
Medication (1 = yes) | −2.1 | 0.8 | −.09 | <.01 | ||
Age in years | 0.8 | 0.2 | .17 | <.01 |