[The German Sydney Swallow Questionnaire : Reliability and validity in patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia].

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 and methods

In a cross-validation study, 48 adult German-speaking patients (12 women, 36 men) with neurogenic (n = 16), structural (n = 16), and functional (n = 16) oropharyngeal dysphagia were assessed with the SSQ‑G and the MD Anderson Dysphagia Inventory (MDADI). Cronbach's α was applied to assess the reliability. Criteria and construct validity were investigated using the S

SUBMITTER: Bohlender JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8613080 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature