Affective symptoms and swallow-specific quality of life in total laryngectomy patients.
Head Neck
; 42(11): 3179-3187, 2020 11.
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| ID: mdl-32621568
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of clinically relevant affective symptoms and level of swallow-specific quality of life (QoL) in dysphagic patients with total laryngectomy (TL) and to explore the relationship between affective symptoms and swallow-specific QoL.METHODS:
Thirty-five TL patients completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the MD Anderson Dysphagia Inventory (MDADI). Student's t test and linear regression were used.RESULTS:
Eight (23%) patients showed clinically relevant symptoms of anxiety, 8 (23%) of depression, and 11 (31%) showed either one. These groups had significantly lower mean MDADI scores. One-point increase in HADS-anxiety or HADS-depression subscale score corresponds with a decrease of 2.7 or 3.0 points, on average, respectively, of the MDADI total score.CONCLUSIONS:
Clinically relevant affective symptoms were present in approximately one-third of the TL patients. These preliminary results show that increased affective symptom scores correlate with a decreased swallow-specific QoL.Palavras-chave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos de Deglutição
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Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article