Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment: Applicability in children and adolescents with malignant tumors

• Autor(a) principal: Nemetz, Kellen Benites
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Bastos Domingues, Laura de Carvalho, Gregianin, Lauro José, da Cruz, Luciane Beitler
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Clinical and Biomedical Research
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/hcpa/article/view/105108
• topic: Tumor; pediatrics; nutritional status; nutritional assessment; Oncologia; Pediatria

Introduction: This study investigated the applicability of the Subjective Global NutritionalAssessment (SGNA) tool to evaluate the nutritional status of pediatric cancer patients.Methods: This was a multicenter, observational cohort study of infants, children,and adolescents diagnosed with malignant tumors. Participants were evaluated at themoment they were diagnosed with a malignant tumor (EV1) and at the third monthof treatment (EV2). Objective data were collected and the SGNA questionnaire wasapplied. Correlation between the methods was performed using the Kendall test.Results: We evaluated 216 patients at EV1 and 172 patients at EV2. During EV1,7% of patients presented with some degree of malnutrition, according to objectivemeasures, and 35.7% according to the SGNA. During EV2, they presented 6.4% and26.8%, respectively. The SGNA showed ability to diagnose more malnutrition thanobjective indicators and the agreement found between both methods was moderateand weak. We observed a significant correlation between the SGNA and the nutritionalindicators (p = <0.002), thus proving its efficacy in assessing nutritional status.Conclusion: The SGNA was applicable for evaluating the nutritional status of childrenand adolescents diagnosed with malignant tumors, and effective in tracking malnutritionprevalence when compared to objective nutritional assessment methods.