ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences
Effects of zinc supplementation on subscales of anorexia in children: A randomized controlled trial.
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- Systematic Review of Tools and Methods to Measure Appetite in Undernourished Children in the Context of Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2018Pooled it
- The Efficacy of Zinc Gluconate Supplementation in the Improvement of Malnutrition Indices and Skin Abnormalities in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.International journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Zinc supplementation for preventing mortality, morbidity, and growth failure in children aged 6 months to 12 years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Eating Disorders: An Evolutionary Psychoneuroimmunological Approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Serum Zinc Level and Eating Behaviors in Children Receiving Zinc Supplements without Physician Prescription.Advanced biomedical research · 2018Article
- [Risk factors for anorexia in children].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study aims to assess the effects of zinc supplementation on improving the appetite and its subscales in children.
methodsThis study was conducted in 2013 in Isfahan, Iran. It had two phases. At the first step, after validation of the Child Eating Behaviour Questionaire (CEBQ), it was completed for 300 preschool children, who were randomly selected. The second phase was conducted as a randomized controlled trial. Eighty of these children were randomly selected, and were randomly assigned to two groups of equal number receiving zinc (10 mg/day) or placebo for 12 weeks.
resultsOverall 77 children completed the trial (39 in the case and 3 in the control group).The results showed that zinc supplement can improve calorie intake in children by affecting some CEBQ subscales like Emotional over Eating and Food Responsible.
conclusionZinc supplementation had positive impact in promoting the calorie intake and some subscales of anorexia.
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