Validation and Clinical Application of Dysphagia Screening Questionnaire

Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dysphagia; Swallowing Disorders

Treatments: Other: Dysphagia screening questionnaire; Other: Water drinking test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02838771

DSQ1

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 293 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults
• 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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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293 participants in 2 patient groups

Research group participants

Experimental group

Description:

Research group consisted of 171 elderly nursing home residents and 82 outpatients of the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. The participants were given the dysphagia screening questionnaire, consisted of 16 questions and the several sips of water to drink (clinical water drinking test for dysphagia screening).

Treatment:

Other: Dysphagia screening questionnaire

Other: Water drinking test

Control group participants

Other group

Description:

Community-dwelling elderly healthy individuals. The participants were given the dysphagia screening questionnaire, consisted of 16 questions and the several sips of water to drink (clinical water drinking test for dysphagia screening).

Treatment:

Other: Dysphagia screening questionnaire

Other: Water drinking test