Prediction of Functional Health Status and Aspiration Using Multiple Dysphagia Scales Over 6 Months After Acute Stroke

Ulsan University Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dysphagia; Acute Stroke

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03787524

chhwang12

Details and patient eligibility

About

In order to discover dysphagia scales, which shows meaningful predictability of aspiration and functional health status in patients with acute stroke, authors plan to find out more predictable indicators than existing penetration-aspiration scale (PAS) to validate their predictions and their internal and external validity over 6 months following stroke .

Full description

To determine the dysphagia scale with significant predictions of aspiration and functional health status in patients with acute stroke, video-fluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) will be performed to the patients who will be referred for VFSS among stroke patients who would be diagnosed by Brain MRI / CT. When any type of dysphagia is found, participant will be assigned to the test group (DYS), and when no dysphagia is found, they will be assigned to the control group (NOD).

Numerous kinds of assessment will be conducted before and after VFSS, before discharge, and 3, 6, and 9 months after the stroke onset.

Enrollment: 68 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• brain MRI / CT-based stroke patients who were referred for VFSS

Exclusion criteria

• In case of a history of dysphagia
• Unstable patient in neurology
• 2 or higher of NIHSS 1a (level of consciousness)
• Patients with other neurological diseases
• Patients with decompression skull resection
• Refusal of participation

Trial design

68 participants in 2 patient groups

Dysphagia group

Description:

Acute stroke patients who will be diagnosed dysphagia according to VFSS results.

No dysphagia group

Description:

Acute stroke patient who showed no dysphagia according to VFSS results.