Background & aims Tube feeding ensures growth, but can have negative effects on health
and psychosocial functioning, resulting in health related costs. The aims of this study were to …

Background Tube feeding in children has a severe psychosocial impact on children and
their families. Parents also feel that they have limited communication with healthcare …

Objectives: Limited published data describe the long-term effects of behavioral strategies to
wean children from gastrostomy tube (GT) feeding dependence. This study presents data …

Prolonged tube feeding has a multitude of negative outcomes. The transition to oral feeding
is essential for child and family quality of life. Behaviour-analytic interventions are effective …

Tube dependency is recognized as an unintended result of long-term tube feeding in infants
and young children. The condition involves disturbing side effects such as vomiting …

Aim Feeding disorders (FD) and feeding tube dependency (FTD) are defined by a persistent
pattern of food aversion, but data regarding the frequency of food aversion symptoms are …

Tube feeding (TF) is a mode of providing enteral nutrition when oral feeding is not possible
or not sufficient. TF is delivered through a medical device that can be placed into the …

Purpose: To provide an overview of the current feeding tubes in use in the pediatric
population including feeding tube complications, and specific guidance for patients at the …

Objective To evaluate a home-based behavioral treatment model for children with tube
dependency. Methods Nine children (aged 4–14 years) dependent on nasogastric and …

This chapter focuses on clinical experience of interventions following tube feeding for
children and the treatment. Tube feeding is the delivery of a liquid nutritional formula to the …