重新思考对浪费治疗的"不响应":对14项研究的探索性分析
Cécile Cazes1,2, Heather Stobaugh3,4, Paluku Bahwere5
1Emergency Nutrition Network, Oxford, United Kingdom.
PLOS global public health
|February 12, 2025
概括
治疗衰竭的儿童并非所有治疗都失败. 许多"不响应者"显示显著增长,表明恢复延迟. 真正的失败需要进一步调查,以获得更好的儿童健康结果.
科学领域:
- 儿童营养学 儿童营养学
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 儿童营养不良 儿童营养不良
背景情况:
- 如果儿童在12-16周内没有达到恢复标准,他们通常被归类为"不响应者",导致他们被归类为治疗失败.
- 这种分类忽视了这些儿童生长轨迹的潜在变化,可能将延迟康复的儿童误认为最终治疗失败.
研究的目的:
- 对14项涉及6-59个月龄的儿童进行治疗性食治疗的研究进行综合分析.
- 探索"非响应者"的增长轨迹,并批判性地评估当前"非响应"定义的适当性.
- 根据他们在治疗期间的人类学收益的基础上区分非响应者的子组.
主要方法:
- 来自14项研究的数据汇总,包括被归类为康复或不响应的儿童.
- 使用聚合的非响应者数据定义了"低增长非响应者" (<25个百分点的人类学增长) 和"高增长非响应者" (≥25个百分点增长).
- 利用混合效应推广的添加模型来绘制恢复,高增长和低增长群体的生长轨迹 (MUAC,体重,身高).
- 使用多变量多项逻辑回归来识别非响应类别的预测因素.
主要成果:
- 非响应者不是一个均的群体;大约75%的人显示出显著的增长 ("高增长的非响应者"),而25%的人显示出有限的增长 ("低增长的非响应者").
- 高成长的非响应者表现出比康复儿童更糟糕的初始人体状况,但遵循了类似的成长轨迹,表明康复延迟.
- 低增长的非响应者在整个治疗过程中表现出最小的增长,这表明真正的治疗失败.
结论:
- 目前在浪费治疗中对"不反应"的定义过于简单,无法区分延迟反应者和真正的治疗失败.
- 高成长的不响应者应被认为是"延迟响应者",并可能从延长治疗时间中受益.
- 低增长的非响应者代表了真正的治疗失败,需要立即转诊以进行进一步的调查和管理.
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