Ottobre 2010 - Volume XXIX - numero 8

Medico e Bambino


Pagine elettroniche ; Ricerca

Valutazione di fattibilità di progetti di formazione dei pediatri per la prevenzione e la cura dell’obesità

Rita Tanas1, Guido Caggese2, Elisa Rossato3, Elena Desiderio1, Raffaele Limauro4, Renzo Marcolongo5

1UO Pediatria Ospedaliera, Ambulatorio e Day Hospital di Endocrinologia Pediatrica e dell’Adolescenza, AOU Ferrara
2Formazione, Dipartimento Emergenza, AOU Ferrara
3Strutt. Interaz. di Formazione e Progetti Internazionali, AOU Padova
4Centro Studi Federazione Italiana Medici Pediatri, Sezione di Napoli
5Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, AOU Padova

Indirizzo per corrispondenza: tanas.rita@tin.it

FEASIBILITY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

Key words: Childhood obesity, Therapy, Primary Care, Therapeutic Patient Education, Family Group Therapy

Objectives - In 2000 the Paediatric Department of Ferrara (Italy) started a Family Group Therapeutic Educational programme to treat childhood obesity. Following its positive results, a practical professional training in therapeutic education, addressed to healthcare personnel involved in the treatment of childhood obesity, was planned in 2008. The training is meant to promote the development of a shared therapeutic educational strategy for obesity, involving specialists, primary care physicians/paediatricians and families. The article presents the preliminary results of this training and discusses its acceptance and feasibility. Methods - The integrated professional training consists of an on-line course followed by a two-day practical training at the Paediatric Department of Ferrara University Hospital or, alternatively, by a two-day classroom group training. The feasibility assessment of the training project takes into account the following criteria: a multidimensional questionnaire (a preand post-test investigating knowledge, motivation, self-efficacy, methodology, communication, modelling etc.), an appreciation questionnaire, and the observed outcomes for the implementation of daily professional practice. Results and conclusions - Preliminary results prove its feasibility as well as a great interest and appreciation by participants. Moreover, the professional training has a low cost and could be even cheaper by making each seminar accessible to more than one participant.

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R. Tanas, G. Caggese, E. Rossato, E. Desiderio, R. Limauro, R. Marcolongo
Valutazione di fattibilità di progetti di formazione dei pediatri per la prevenzione e la cura dell’obesità
Medico e Bambino 2010;29(8):529-530 https://www.medicoebambino.com/?id=1008_529.pdf

Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo

Un reflusso gastroesofageo molto maligno

Massimo Grassi, Valerio Cecinati, Francesco De Leonardis, Doriana Amato, Letizia Pomponia Brescia, Domenico De Mattia, Nicola Santoro

UO Oncoematologia Pediatrica “F. Vecchio”, Università di Bari
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico “Consorziale”, Bari

Indirizzo per corrispondenza: grassimassimo@hotmail.it

A HIGHLY MALIGNANT GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX

Key words: Gastroesophageal reflux, Medulloblastoma, Childhood, Diagnosis

We report a case of a 13-year-old boy with recurrent episodes of vomiting. Initially a diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux with esophagitis was made. The patient also showed bradycardia and deflections of mood. Neurological assessment and examination of fundus oculi resulted normal. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain was performed for the persistence of vomiting despite antireflux therapy: cerebellar neoplasm was found. The histological evaluation of the excised neoplasm was consistent with medulloblastoma so the patient was submitted to cancer chemotherapy and he is currently in remission of disease. We present an anecdotal case of delay in the diagnosis of brain tumors in children; in this case the delay was aggravated by the detection of reflux esophagitis and by the normality of neurological assessment and of evaluation of the fundus oculi.

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M. Grassi, V. Cecinati, F. De Leonardis, D. Amato, L.P. Brescia, D. De Mattia, N. Santoro
Un reflusso gastroesofageo molto maligno
Medico e Bambino 2010;29(8):529-530 https://www.medicoebambino.com/?id=1008_529.pdf


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