Outpatient Swallowing Therapy for Subjects With Neurological Illness

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dysphagia

Treatments: Other: Combination of different dysphagia training modalities

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04595643

1-10-72-182-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

Health care staff in the municipalities do not always have the necessary competencies to treat patients with dysphagia. At the present neurorehabilitation hospital dysphagia examinations for outpatients are provided.

The objective is to investigate the effect of a specialized outpatient dysphagia unit for subjects with dysphagia following neurological illness. Occupational therapists from the outpatient dysphagia unit will train with subjects for 2-3 weeks, and supervise furter training provided by health care staff in the municipalities.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Neurological illness
• Living in the Region of central Jutland
• FEDSS score 2-6

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5 participants in 1 patient group

Specialized dysphagia treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Dysphagia treatment is provided by occupational therapists specialized in dysphagia.

Treatment:

Other: Combination of different dysphagia training modalities