[The German Sydney Swallow Questionnaire : Reliability and validity in patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia]. / Der deutsche Sydney Swallow Questionnaire : Reliabilität und Validität bei Patienten mit oropharyngealer Dysphagie.
HNO
; 69(12): 969-977, 2021 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The Sydney Swallow Questionnaire (SSQ) is a self-report inventory assessing subjective symptoms of oropharyngeal dysphagia with strong content, construct, discriminant, and predictive validity and test-retest reliability in a range of patient populations.OBJECTIVE:
The main aim of this work was to assess the validity and reliability of the German version of the SSQ (SSQ-G). MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
In a cross-validation study, 48 adult German-speaking patients (12 women, 36 men) with neurogenic (nâ¯= 16), structural (nâ¯= 16), and functional (nâ¯= 16) oropharyngeal dysphagia were assessed with the SSQG and the MD Anderson Dysphagia Inventory (MDADI). Cronbach's α was applied to assess the reliability. Criteria and construct validity were investigated using the Spearman correlation coefficient.RESULTS:
With Cronbach's αâ¯= 0.94, the internal consistency of the SSQG was excellent. The SSQG questions 1 and 17 showed a moderately significant and highly significant correlation coefficient of -0.43 and -0.45, respectively, with MDADI question 1 (pâ¯<â¯0.5, pâ¯<â¯0.001). Between questions 8, 11, and 12 of the SSQG and questions 7, 13, and 10 of the MDADI, coefficients of -0.48 to -0.55 showed a moderate to strong highly significant correlation (pâ¯<â¯0.001). Thus, the reliability and criterion and construct validity were statistically confirmed.CONCLUSION:
The German version of the SSQ (SSQ-G) allows a reliable and valid assessment of functional swallowing difficulties. In combination with questionnaires on symptom-specific quality of life, such as the MDADI, a more differentiated clinical analysis of swallowing problems is thus possible.Palavras-chave
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Transtornos de Deglutição
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Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço
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Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Ano de publicação:
2021
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