Health-Related Quality of Life and Distress of Parents of Children With Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

Objectives: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is impaired.

Aim: To measure HRQOL and distress of parents of children with ARFID.

Methods: Cross-sectional cohort study.

Long-term efficacy of clinical hunger provocation to wean feeding tube dependent children.

Background & Aims: The incidence of tube feeding dependency seems to increase worldwide, and these children may remain on prolonged tube feeding for many months to years. The multidisciplinary clinical hunger provocation (CHP) program is an intensive inpatient intervention of usually 2-3 weeks, aimed at weaning children from tube feeding. CHP has been proven highly effective on the short term (80-86%), particularly when applied before the age of two years but long-term data are lacking.

Prevalence and side effects of pediatric home tube feeding.

Background & Aims: Tube feeding ensures growth, but can have negative effects on health and psychosocial functioning, resulting in health related costs. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of pediatric home tube feeding in the Netherlands and to assess the clinical characteristics of tube fed children and side effects of tube feeding.

Methods: The prevalence of pediatric home tube feeding was calculated using data (2010-2014) of both the Medicines and Devices Information Project of the National Health Care Institute, and Statistics Netherlands.