brandwonden burn injury burns
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Martini Ziekenhuis
Eligibility
Age
2 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Eligible are children, adolescents, and young adults who were eligble for the ePAF study from March 2014 to February 2017. These patients were between 6 and 18 years when they were admitted to one of the three Dutch burn centres with (1) burns affecting 5% of total body surface area or more or (2) a length of hospital stay of two weeks or more, or both.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - extensive morbidity unrelated to the burn injury, interfering with physical fitness - insufficient proficiency in Dutch (children and/or their parents) to the extent that clear communication is not possible - no signed informed consent (by the parents and/or children 12 years and older) * patients with a contra-indication for exercse testing will not perform the cycling test, however, may otherwise be included
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Exercise capacity (expressed as peak power output (POpeak) and POpeak divided by body weight (POpeak/kg)) 5 years after discharge. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 5 years after discharge: * Physical fitness * Grip strength - Force (kg) * Flexibility - Range of motion (degrees) of major joints * Body composition - BMI (kg/m2) - Waist circumference (cm) * Physical activity - Score on activity questionnaire *Beweeggedrag* - Accelerometry (counts, daily time spent in various activity intensities) * Health-Related Quality of life - Score on the Burn Outcome Questionnaire - Score on the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale To establish how well children are doing, the above parameters will be compared to Dutch age and sex-matched reference values. Furthermore, the study parameters will be adjusted for confounders. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed