Short Term Feeding Outcomes Among Neonates with Brain Injury

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Short Term Feeding Outcomes Among Neonates with Brain Injury

  • IRAS ID

    268774

  • Contact name

    Sarah Edney

  • Contact email

    sarah.edney@LTHTR.nhs.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 1 months, 12 days

  • Research summary

    Around 5 out of every 1000 babies born in England experience a brain injury during or soon after birth and are admitted to a neonatal unit. These infants frequently have feeding and swallowing problems but are often excluded from neonatal feeding research. This study aims to identify the frequency of feeding problems and the feeding outcomes among infants admitted to a neonatal unit with brain injuries resulting from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, intraventricular haemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia, stroke, intracranial haemorrhage, or central nervous system infection. Routinely collected information will be gathered from the BadgetNet database by a researcher who is also a member of the neonatal clinical team. No personal information will be collected. Data collected about the infants will be in coded form and will include a coded category for gestational age at birth, gestational age at discharge, brain injury type, brain injury severity, and feeding outcome. Data will be used to determine how many children with these brain injuries have feeding difficulties when they reach 40 weeks gestational age and when discharged from the neonatal unit, and to compare these feeding outcomes between types of brain injury and between different severity levels. Findings from this study will be used to determine which groups are at highest risk of feeding problems so they can be targeted in future clinical research.

  • REC name

    North East - Tyne & Wear South Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    19/NE/0273

  • Date of REC Opinion

    27 Aug 2019

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion