Constipation
Conditions
Interventions
This is a descriptive clinical cohort intervention study. with data collection scheduled for a period of 12 months, which seeks to evaluate the effectiveness and applicability of transcutaneous electr
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Sponsors
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - Universidade Estadual Paulista
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - Universidade Estadual Paulista
Eligibility
Age
7 Years to 18 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Age between 7 and 18 years; Both sex; diagnosis of postoperative constipation according to Rome IV criteria; patient in late postoperative correction of anorectal malformations; patient in the late postoperative period of Hirschsprung's disease; Free and informed consent form and Free and informed consent form (patients between 11 and 18 years old) duly signed
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with ostomies; Patients with postoperative strictures; Patients with residual aganglionic follow-up; Neurological and/or cognitive deficits; Skin lesions at the application site; heart diseases; Subjected to medication or food change during the intervention; Patients who drop out of the intervention
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected to find the increase in the number of evacuations per week verified through the evacuation diary and the Bowel Function Score - BF-S quetinary, which will be completed before and after the intervention period;It is expected to find a reduction in the number of fecal losses, fecal incontinence, evaluated through the evacuation diary and the Bowel Function Score - BF-S quetinary, which will be completed before and after the intervention period;Improvement of stool consistency is expected, verified through the Modified Bristol Scale for Stool Consistency for children - mBSFS-C, which will be completed before and after the intervention period;Improvement of health-related quality of life indicators is expected, verified through the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory version 4.0 - PedsQL 4.0 adapted for each age group, and the Questionnaire for Assessment of Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with Fecal Incontinence - AQLCAFI that will be completed before and after the intervention period | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| We will evaluate the practical difficulties for the application of this method and possible adverse events through the questionnaire directed to the evaluation of the daily applicability in the home regime | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactAna Luiza De Onofre
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - Universidade Estadual Paulista
Outcome results
None listed