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Conditions
Brief summary
This population based longitudinal study of children with CP from the age of 18 months to 5 years will permit the first comprehensive evaluation of the impact of functional attainment and lifestyle factors (dietary intake and habitual physical activity) on growth, body composition and nutritional status. This study will enable more accurate prediction of the early natural history of nutritional and growth problems in young children with CP linked to activity levels and health outcomes.
Interventions
Growth (height, length, segmental length), body composition (percent body fat) nutrition (3 day weighed food record), physical activity (physical activity monitor), health outcomes (questionnaire), participation (questionnaire) and health resource use (questionnaire) will be measured at 18months of age, 3 years of age and 5 years of age.
Sponsors
University of Queensland
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Months to 62 Months
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
All Queensland born children diagnosed with CP, born between 1st September 2006 and 31st December, 2009. We define CP as a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing foetal or infant brain. The characteristic signs are spasticity, movement disorders, muscle weakness, ataxia and rigidity.
Exclusion criteria
Children with a progressive or neurodegenerative lesion will be excluded from the study.
Outcome results
None listed