Pediatrics and research

The Pediatric Institute's research unit was created with the aim of promoting and supporting pediatric research projects in Ticino, fostering collaboration with Swiss university centers and interacting with those already present in the area (USI, SUPSI, IRB). The unit meets regularly to discuss research project proposals and provides scientific support to those who would like to pursue a project of their own in both the medical and nursing fields.

Scopes

The research unit of thePediatric Institute of Italian Switzerland is oriented toward clinical research in various fields of pediatrics.

The main areas of research are as follows:

  • General pediatrics: systematic reviews of rare diseases or rare complications of frequent pediatric diseases.
  • Cardiology and nephrology: projects on childhood hypertension and cardiovascular risk factors in young people, Swiss SPHC congenital heart disease registry and international Brugada Syndrome registry.
  • Infectious diseases: participation in registries (MoCHIV, CITRUS) that analyze the prevalence of rare infectious diseases in childhood. A seroprevalence study of COVID-19 in the pediatric population was undertaken in 2020.
  • Neuropediatrics: studies are underway on neurovascular disease, neuromuscular disease, rare diseases, neurodevelopment after high-risk birth (prematurity, perinatal asphyxia), traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, autism spectrum disorders, and cerebral palsy.
  • Oncohematology: participation in several national and international cooperative study protocols as one of the nine Swiss centers of the Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group(SPOG) with the aim of promoting clinical research in pediatric oncology.
  • Rheumatology: participation in international registries of inflammatory rheumatologic diseases.
  • Pediatric surgery: interest in new protocols in minimally invasive surgery, orthopedics and trauma surgery.

Highlights

In collaboration with USI and Unisanté (Lausanne) The Pediatric Institute is participating in a study on eating habits in children (MenuCH-Kids), which will take place between 2023 and 2024 and will feature a sample of Ticino children as participants. Important information on the diet and nutritional status of children in Ticino may be gleaned from this study.

The professional journal Paediatrica published the article "10 years on the move together as a network," which traces the steps taken by the network of Swiss pediatric units over the past 10 years.

People

Collaborations

  • University of Italian Switzerland (USI).
  • University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI).
  • Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB).
  • SwissPedNet.
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV).
  • University of Bern (UNIBE).
  • Universitäts-Kinderspital Eleonorenstiftung and University of Zurich.
  • Hôpital des Enfants - Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG).
  • Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel (UKBB).

Contact

Pediatric Clinical Research Unit
Pediatric Institute of Italian Switzerland
Via A. Gallino 12
6500 Bellinzona
[email protected]

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The original version is the page in Italian.