Nutrition in Pediatrics

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes (TP). The syllabus contents will be approached, discussed and exemplified through various teaching-learning methodologies, primarily in the expository and demonstrative methods. The teaching-learning process will be mostly based on problems, with students being confronted with specific problems that serve as a pretext to explain the syllabus in an integrated way. Teaching-learning methodologies taught in small groups, group discussions, ‘case-study’ and problem solving will be favored, focusing student learning.

For the evaluation of the learning results, an Exam will be used to evaluate the learning results, whose minimum passing score will correspond to 9.5 values.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student should be able to describe the fundamental assumptions inherent to the nutritional support in pediatric age, how to recognize the nutritional needs in each phase of growth and the necessary methods for the assessment of nutritional status, as well as the existing recommendations for feeding infants, children and adolescents. It is also intended that the student acquires skills to recognize a child at nutritional risk and to indicate the main recommendations inherent to the nutritional support of the sick child.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Fundamental principles of pediatric nutrition:
a) Nutritional needs;
b) Assessment of nutritional status (methods of assessing food intake in pediatrics; methods of assessing body composition)
2. Infant, child and adolescent feeding;
3. Pediatric age nutritional risk;
4. Nutrition in Disease in Pediatric Age.

Head Lecturer(s)

Lélita Conceição Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
For the evaluation of the learning results, an Exam will be used to evaluate the learning results, whose minimum passing score will correspond to 9.5 values: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Huysentruyt K, Devreker T, Dejonckheere J, De Schepper J, Vandenplas Y, Cools F. Accuracy of Nutritional Screening Tools in Assessing the Risk of Undernutrition in Hospitalized Children. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2015;61(2):159-66.

Judith E. Brown et al (2011). Nutrition Through the Life Cycle (4th edition). Belmont, USA: Cengage Learning.

Koletzko B, et al. (eds): Pediatric Nutrition in Practice. World Rev Nutr Diet. Basel, Karger, 2015, vol 113, pp 41–45

Matos C., Faria A., Vasconcelos C., Asseiceira I., Tomada I,Pitta Grós Dias M. e Moreira R. NOP001/2018: Identificação do risco nutricional em pediatria. Ordem dos nutricionistas. Versão 01; junho 2018.

Shils, M. E., Shike, M., Ross, A.C., Caballero, B., Cousins, R.J. (2014). Nutrição Moderna na Saúde e na Doença (11ª ed.). São Paulo, Brasil: Manole.