Validation of a Screening Tool for Swallowing Disorders for the Elderly
- Conditions
- DysphagiaSwallowing Disorder
- Interventions
- Diagnostic Test: Deglut'G testDiagnostic Test: SLP swallowing testDiagnostic Test: ENT doctor swallowing test
- Registration Number
- NCT06163118
- Lead Sponsor
- University Hospital Center of Martinique
- Brief Summary
Swallowing disorder, or dysphagia, is a lack of protection of the airways during the passage of the food bolus towards the esophagus. Swallowing disorder is characterized by a feeling of discomfort when swallowing, difficult swallowing in elderly people or a blockage felt during the progression of food between the mouth and the stomach, sometimes with falsities. These disorders can be the cause of a loss of appetite and a reduction in food consumption in older people.
In the most serious cases, they can lead to aspiration, weakening the pulmonary passages and possibly leading to suffocation.
Swallowing disorders constitute an important public health problem due to their prevalence among the elderly. Many early readmissions could be avoided thanks to better quality of care in these patients.
In the elderly, the number of comorbidities and the multiplicity of medications and drug intake increase the incidence of swallowing disorders in this population. They constitute a common pathology, probably underestimated and underdiagnosed in the geriatric population.
Given the aging of the Martinique population, it is appropriate to offer an easy-to-use, quickly achievable tool for diagnostic purposes, making it possible to quickly identify potential swallowing disorders, and therefore to anticipate meal intake, and on the adaptation of the prescription to a medicinal alternative (before any food or medication taken during hospitalization).
In the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit of the Martinique University Hospital, a tool called "Deglut'G", was developed, and has been used since 2015, in order to allow caregivers a rapid, reliable and relevant assessment of swallowing disorders in the elderly, in order to guide care and medication alternatives.It now appears important to validate this tool, by comparing it with the results of examinations of swallowing disorders obtained from a speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and an ENT doctor.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
- Person aged 75 or over hospitalized in the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit,
- Person having been informed of the research,
- Person having given free written and informed consent,
- Person affiliated to a social security scheme.
- Person unable to take the tests,
- Person with an oral condition that hinders normal swallowing (stomatitis, gingivitis, etc.),
- Elderly person under legal protection, under guardianship or curatorship,
- Person who refused to participate in the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Patient aged 75 or over hospitalized in the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit ENT doctor swallowing test Two caregivers from the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit will successively administer the "Deglut'G" tool to each patient, blind to each other, and blind to the SLP and ENT doctor examination. All patients will have a SLP examination and an ENT doctor examination aimed at detecting swallowing disorders. Patient aged 75 or over hospitalized in the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit Deglut'G test Two caregivers from the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit will successively administer the "Deglut'G" tool to each patient, blind to each other, and blind to the SLP and ENT doctor examination. All patients will have a SLP examination and an ENT doctor examination aimed at detecting swallowing disorders. Patient aged 75 or over hospitalized in the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit SLP swallowing test Two caregivers from the Geriatric Short-Stay Unit will successively administer the "Deglut'G" tool to each patient, blind to each other, and blind to the SLP and ENT doctor examination. All patients will have a SLP examination and an ENT doctor examination aimed at detecting swallowing disorders.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measure the concordance between the results of the SLP examination, and those obtained with the Deglut'G tool, for the detection of swallowing disorders. 12 months Concordance between the results of the Deglut'G test and the SLP assessment.
The evaluation of a swallowing disorder via the DegluT'G tool, by the geriatric short-stay unit caregivers, will be done as follows:
* Presence of cough following administration of gelled water : suspicion of swallowing disorder
* Presence of cough following administration of water : suspicion of swallowing disorder
* Absence of cough following administration of water : no swallowing disorder
This assessment will be compared to the SLP assessment, whatever the assessment method used.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measure the concordance between the results of the ENT doctor examination, and those obtained with the Deglut'G tool, for the detection of swallowing disorders 12 months Concordance between the results of the Deglut'G test and the ENT doctor assessment.
The evaluation of a swallowing disorder via the DegluT'G tool, by the geriatric short-stay unit caregivers, will be done as follows:
* Presence of cough following administration of gelled water : suspicion of swallowing disorder
* Presence of cough following administration of water : suspicion of swallowing disorder
* Absence of cough following administration of water : no swallowing disorder
This assessment will be compared to the ENT doctor assessment, whatever the assessment method used.Measure the concordance of the measurements obtained with the Deglut'G tool between two caregivers, for the detection of swallowing disorders 12 months Inter-rater reliability of Deglut'G screening
Estimate the average time it takes to use the Deglut'G tool 12 months Time taken to take the Déglut'G tests (in minutes)
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University Hospital Center of Martinique
🇫🇷Fort-de-France, France