Validation and Clinical Application of Dysphagia Screening Questionnaire
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 293
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Dysphagia screening questionnaire
Overview
Brief Summary
The aim of this research was to develop a dysphagia screening measure and evaluate the prevalence of dysphagia and its clinical manifestation in different in age population groups.
Detailed Description
The dysphagia screening questionnaire had the stages of validation - translation and back translation, a review of the translation and back translation committee, pre-test study (36 persons) with monolingual individuals and the test re-test study (67 subjects included).
The case - control study groups were tested using dysphagia screening questionnaire and clinical screening - water drinking test. Barthel index and nutrition questionnaire were used to identify the nutritional and functional state. M. D. Anderson dysphagia inventory questionnaire, sf-12 questionnaire were used to assess dysphagia effects on the quality of life.
The research group consisted of two subgroups - 171 nursing home residents from 3 different nursing homes and 82 outpatients of the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. The control group consisted of randomly selected 40 community-dwelling elderly healthy individuals.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Screening
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 65 Years to — (Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Consent for participating in the research
- •No cognitive disorders or mental illnesses
Exclusion Criteria
- •Refusal to participate in the research
- •Serious mental or cognitive conditions
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Dysphagia screening questionnaire
Time Frame: At the baseline
Lithuanian version of questionnaire consists of 16 questions about masticatory and swallowing functions and dysphagia consequences during patients last one year.
Secondary Outcomes
- Clinical water drinking test(At the baseline)
- Barthel index(At the baseline)
- Nutrition questionnaire(At the baseline)
- M. D. Anderson dysphagia inventory (MDADI)(At the baseline)
- The 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12 questionnaire)(At the baseline)
Investigators
Nora Siupsinskiene
Professor medical doctor of otorhinolaryngology
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences