ALEXANDRE ARCHANJO FERRARO
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Departamento de Pediatria, Faculdade de Medicina - Docente
LIM/21 - Laboratório de Neuroimagem em Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/21 - Laboratório de Neuroimagem em Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Excess body weight in children may increase the length of hospital stay(2015) FERNANDES, Maria Teresa Bechere; DANTI, Gabriel Vecchi; GARCIA, Denise Maximo Lellis; FERRARO, Alexandre A.OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of excess body weight in the pediatric ward of University Hospital and to test both the association between initial nutritional diagnosis and the length of stay and the in-hospital variation in nutritional status. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study based on information entered in clinical records from University Hospital. The data were collected from a convenience sample of 91 cases among children aged one to 10 years admitted to the hospital in 2009. The data that characterize the sample are presented in a descriptive manner. Additionally, we performed a multivariate linear regression analysis adjusted for age and gender. RESULTS: Nutritional classification at baseline showed that 87.8% of the children had a normal weight and that 8.9% had excess weight. The linear regression models showed that the average weight loss z-score of the children with excess weight compared with the group with normal weight was -0.48 (p = 0.018) and that their length of stay was 2.37 days longer on average compared with that of the normal-weight group (p = 0.047). CONCLUSIONS: The length of stay and loss of weight at the hospital may be greater among children with excess weight than among children with normal weight.
- Confiabilidade da tradução da versão brasileira do questionário PedsQL - DREA para avaliação da qualidade de vida de crianças e adolescentes(2015) LOPES, Marcos Thomazin; FERRARO, Alexandre Archanjo; KOCH, Vera Hermina KalikaAbstract Objective: To evaluate the reliability of the translation and cultural adaptation of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQLTM) - End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) - version 3.0 - children/adolescents and parents reports in Brazilian children with ESRD. Methods: A group of 24 children and adolescents with ESRD, followed at Unidade de Nefrologia Pediátrica do Instituto da Criança - HCFMUSP and 32 primary caregivers were interviewed according to the me methodology proposed by the creator of the original questionnaire. Results: Statistical analysis using Cronbach's alpha resulted in values between 0.39 and 0.89 for all domains in initial statistical analysis. The domains that presented values lower than 0.5 were recalculated by age group, resulting in higher Cronbach's alpha values demonstrating the influence of the age in the perception of quality of life in ESRD patients. The overall rating of Cronbach's alpha values resulted in values of 0.81 and 0.71 in patients and PC reports, respectively, demonstrating good internal consistency. Conclusions: Ours results show that the Brazilian version of the questionnaires is valid, reliable and useful for measure HRQoL of children and adolescents ESRD, according to patients and PC reports.