Comparative Study of Self-Perceived Subjective Evaluation of Physical, Emotional, Functional Aspect of Swallowing in Subject with Post Cerebrovascular Accident with and Without Dysphagia
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 7
Abstract
The incidence rates are reported to be between 29-67% in acute stroke patients. People post stroke with dysphagia are more likely to be anxious and depressed due to inability to eat. Early identification and detection through screening is an essential first step in the management to dysphagia. There are objective and subjective evaluation procedure for assessment of dysphagia. Subjective assessment tool can give an idea about how the patient perceives his/her swallowing problem and can be helpful in monitoring the patient’s prognosis. There can be discrepancy between health care perception and patient own perception of difficulty and severity. There are very limited Indian published research studies considering large number of Hindi speaking population. Therefore current study to develop tool which can measurephysical, emotional, functional aspect of swallowing.25 item questionnaire (8 emotional, 8 physical, 9 functional) was developed and translated into Hindi language. For intra test, test –retest reliability of test tool obtained .Eight subjects with CVA & dysphagia 5 males and 3 females with mean age of 51.8 years (range 45-62 years).The other research group consisted of 8 subject 4 females and 4 males with mean age of 52.44 years (range, 45-61 years). For comparing the means score of both the research group t tail was used. There high reliability was seen in both the test situation. Dysphagia group shown statistical significant high score i.e. they face significant difficulty in terms of physical, emotional, function aspect.
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Mr. Shivraj Bhimte
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