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Nutrición Hospitalaria
versión On-line ISSN 1699-5198versión impresa ISSN 0212-1611
Resumen
MACANA-MUNOZ, Saúl David; PINZON-ESPITIA, Olga Lucía; PARDO-GONZALEZ, Carlos Alberto y CASTANEDA-LOPEZ, Jhon Fredy. Validation of the nutritional screening tool for childhood cancer SCAN. Spanish version. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2023, vol.40, n.2, pp.295-302. Epub 05-Jun-2023. ISSN 1699-5198. https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.04369.
Introduction:
the prevalence of undernutrition in the pediatric cancer population can vary considerably, an element that significantly influences the clinical outcome of patients. However, this is a potentially modifiable prognostic factor, which requires timely identification of nutritional risk to guide the nutritional care process.
Objectives:
to evaluate the operational performance of the Spanish version of the nutritional screening tool for childhood cancer (SCAN) in the context of the validation process of this instrument in a high-complexity hospital in the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
Methods:
the methodological design for the validation of a diagnostic scale was followed. The final sample consisted of 96 patients between 0 and 17 years with cancer and hospitalized at the Children's Cancer Center of the HOMI Foundation in Bogota. The SCAN-SP was applied to each patient and a complete nutritional assessment (CNA) was performed as a gold standard to determine nutritional status.
Results:
82.3 % (n = 79) of patients were classified "at risk of malnutrition" by SCAN-SP and 69.8 % (n = 67) of the total sample had undernutrition. The evaluation of the operative performance of SCAN-SP against CNA showed excellent results: sensitivity of 100 %, specificity of 59 %, PPV of 85 %, NPV of 100 %, positive likelihood ratio of 2.4, and negative likelihood ratio of 0.
Conclusion:
the SCAN-SP scale performs well as a nutritional screening tool in pediatric cancer patients, so its use in clinical practice is recommended.
Palabras clave : Undernutrition; Childhood cancer; Nutritional screening; Nutritional status.