Validation of the French Version of the Sydney Swallow Questionnaire in Patients With Neuromuscular Diseases
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Dysphagia
- Sponsor
- Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain
- Enrollment
- 250
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Sydney Swallow Questionnaire
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Measurements of dysphagia severity are important when making management decisions and in the objective evaluation of swallowing impairments. The Sydney Swallow Questionnaire (SSQ) is a validated self-report inventory using a visual analogue scale. This questionnaire permits a quantitative, sensitive, specific, repeatable and easily responsive evaluation of dysphagia in different pathology. Opposed to largely used videofluoroscopy swallowing study and endoscopy examinations, the SSQ is noninvasive, less expensive, avoids radiation exposure and enables a readily available assessment. Validated French version is not yet available. In the first phase of the study the investigators will validated this translation in dysphagic patients and control. Secondly, the investigators will validate the SSQ in Neuromuscular patients.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Healthy participants
- •Able to speak, read and write in French
- •Aged at least 18 years old
- •Patients, with symptoms indicative of a deglutition disorder, referred for a videofluoroscopic study to the Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department, Voice and Swallowing Clinic
- •Able to speak, read and write in French
- •Aged at least 18 years old
- •Clinical diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases
- •Able to understand French
Exclusion Criteria
- •History of neurological or neuromuscular disease
- •History of any diagnosticated swallowing disorder
- •Patients who could not be cataloged as dysphagic or non-dysphagic after the videofluoroscopic study evaluation
- •Patients unable to answer the questionnaire
- •Patients who could not be cataloged as dysphagic or non-dysphagic
- •Patients unable to answer the questionnaire
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Sydney Swallow Questionnaire
Time Frame: 10 minutes
The participants were asked to fill out these questionnaires during the outpatient visit.