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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
Problems experienced when swallowing solid oral dosage forms in older Japanese patients with dysphagia: A
Kumi Tanaka1,2, Takeshi Kikutani1,2, Fumiyo Tamura1,2
1Division of Rehabilitation for Speech and Swallowing Disorders, The Nippon Dental University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.
Aims:
We aimed to assess the difficulty in taking solid oral dosage forms (SODFs) among older people with dysphagia and clarify the relationship between difficulty in swallowing SODFs and swallowing function.
Methods And Results:
Outpatients from a dysphagia clinic aged ≥65 years were asked yes-or-no questions about the applicability of eight items regarding difficulty in taking SODFs. Additionally, a videofluorographic swallowing study (VFSS) was performed to assess their swallowing function. The Kruskal-Wallis test and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient were used to analyze the relationship between difficulty in taking SODFs and swallowing function.
Results:
Among the 93 participants, the average number of SODFs consumed was 5.8 ± 3.1. In the questionnaire, the average number of "yes" answers was 2.2 ± 2.2, and 65 patients (71.0%) answered "yes" to at least one question. Additionally, no significant relationship was observed between the perceived difficulty in swallowing SODFs and VFSS findings.
Conclusion:
Approximately 70% of participants reported subjective difficulty in taking SODFs, showing that patients uniformly reported perceived difficulty in taking SODFs regardless of actual swallowing function. The results of this study suggest that patients must be questioned thoroughly about their SODFs use, regardless of the objective severity of their dysphagia.
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