Feeding Difficulties and Quality of Life in Children With Tracheal Cannula

The over all goal of this observational study is to study if there is an association between the presence of feeding difficulties and self-assessed quality of life in children with tracheal cannula. The main questions it aims to answer are 1. What is the incidence of feeding difficulties in children with tracheostomy and what type of feeding difficulties affect these children? 2. How do children with a tracheal tube and their parents assess their quality of life measured through PedsQL? 3. Is there an association between the presence of feeding difficulties and self-assessed quality of life in children with tracheal cannula? Quality of life will be assessed in an interview using the PedsQL instrument generic module 4.0. Swallowing difficulties will be assessed through evaluations based on The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale.

NCT Number	NCT06893458
Lead Sponsor	Karolinska Institutet Collaborators: Region Stockholm
Conditions	Quality of Life (QOL), Tracheostomy, Children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit or General Pediatric Care Unit Requiring a Central Venous Catheter, Feeding Difficulties, Swallowing Difficulties, Caregiver Quality of Life
Enrollment	80 participants
Start Date	2025-03-17
Primary Completion	2027-03-17 (estimated)
Study Completion	2027-03-17 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-02-13