Validation and Clinical Application of Dysphagia Screening Questionnaire
Validation and Clinical Application of Dysphagia Screening Questionnaire
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.
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.
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