A Randomised Trial of How Hospital Patients and Health Care Professionals Judge that Being Restricted to Taking Fluids of Different Consistencies Would Affect Their Quality of Life
- Conditions
- DysphagiaSigns and Symptoms
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN60490134
- Lead Sponsor
- Galway University Hospitals
- Brief Summary
2016 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afv194 (added 03/06/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 150
Group 1: Consecutive patients admitted to the medical wards of a 600-bed university teaching hospital, who were judged by medical and nursing staff to be clinically stable and fit to be interviewed.
Group 2: A convenience sample of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals working on the medical wards of the hospital or on an associated rehabilitation unit.
1. Patients with any of the following diagnoses present: dementia or delirium; stroke, Parkinson’s disease or parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis, dysphagia from any other condition, or receiving a texture modified diet for any reason
2. Those with limited command of English or with other major communication problems
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Individual subject utilities will be elicited in face to face interviews. The average (median as non-parametric analysis planned) utility in each of the randomised groups will be compared.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Average utilities will be compared between patient and professional groups<br>2. The effect if any of age and gender on subject utilities will be examined<br>3. The amount of the sample of thickened fluid that each subject drank will be recorded as less than a third, between one and two thirds and more than two thirds<br>4. The relationship between the volume consumed and the subsequent utility rating of subjects will be analysed