The effectiveness research of the Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics for nutrition risk screening among hospitalized children
FENG Sheng
CHENG Lei
LU Hua
FENG Yi
ZHOU Yingfeng
Abstract：Objective To investigate the value of nutritional screening tool Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics (STAMP) in screening malnutrition among hospitalized children.Methods A total of 808 hospitalized children were enrolled for malnutrition screening in a comprehensive children's hospital in Shanghai, from June to July 2016.Results A total of 137 cases were in low risk (16.96％), 604 cases in moderate risk (74.75％) and 67 cases in high risk (8.29％) according to the criteria of STAMP.Taking the cut-off point of 2 in STAMP, the sensitivity and specificity of the tool were 92.50％ and 21.70％, respectively.The positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 36.95％ and 85.40％, respectively.The area under the ROC curve was 0.622.Conclusion It is important to screen the nutritional status of hospitalized children.The cut-off point of 2 in STAMP shows a high sensitivity to find children with malnutrition risk.However, its specificity is relatively low.
Keywords：malnutrition riskScreening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatricshospitalized childrendiagnostic test
Publication Date：2019-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 233-236 )