Dysphagia therapy in the elderly: Weighing aspiration risk against quality of life in eating and drinking.Which relevant aspects for decisions can be deducted from the patients’ and family members’ perspectives?A qualitative pilot study
- Conditions
- R13.9
- Registration Number
- DRKS00011802
- Lead Sponsor
- AGAPLESION Bethanien Krankenhaus Heidelberg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 12
Patients/ Family Members of AGAPLESION Bethanien Krankenhaus Heidelberg
Patients of SLP colleagues
Cognitive abilities of patients: Mini Mental State = 24
Dysphagia: GUSS* = 19
At least one week pured or semi-solid food during the stay
NTID** = 3, speech essentially understandable
Acute or rehabilitative geriatric treatment within the frame of multimorbidity
Age = 75
Patients at other institutions
Lack of family members
Patients with legal representatives
Patients of the investigator responsible for the study
Mini Mental State < 24
GUSS = 20
Oral nutrition with solid consistencies (more than semi-solid)
by mouth
NTID = 2, speech mostly or totally incomprehensible
Aphasia
Age < 75
* GUSS = Gugging Swallowing Screen (Trapl, 2007)
** NTID = Comprehensibility scale, National Technical Institute for the deaf. (Ziegler, 1994)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Determination of relevant aspects from the perspective of geriatric patients with dysphagia and their family members concerning decisions between aspiration risk and quality of life from eating and drinking.<br>Data are collected through semi-structured, problem centered interviews. Respectively one patient and the associated family member will both be interviewed separately.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method