Validation of the French Version of the Sydney Swallow Questionnaire in Patients With Neuromuscular Diseases

Dysphagia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Validation of the French Version of the Sydney Swallow Questionnaire in Patients With Neuromuscular Diseases

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02845362
• Other study ID #: SSQVAL
• Secondary ID: 2016/18MAI/215
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 2016
• Est. completion date: October 2018

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Measurements of dysphagia severity are important when making management decisions and in the objective evaluation of swallowing impairments. The Sydney Swallow Questionnaire (SSQ) is a validated self-report inventory using a visual analogue scale. This questionnaire permits a quantitative, sensitive, specific, repeatable and easily responsive evaluation of dysphagia in different pathology. Opposed to largely used videofluoroscopy swallowing study and endoscopy examinations, the SSQ is noninvasive, less expensive, avoids radiation exposure and enables a readily available assessment. Validated French version is not yet available. In the first phase of the study the investigators will validated this translation in dysphagic patients and control. Secondly, the investigators will validate the SSQ in Neuromuscular patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 250
• Est. completion date: October 2018
• Est. primary completion date: July 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Phase 1:

Group 1:

• Healthy participants

• Able to speak, read and write in French

• Aged at least 18 years old

Group 2:

• Patients, with symptoms indicative of a deglutition disorder, referred for a videofluoroscopic study to the Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department, Voice and Swallowing Clinic

• Able to speak, read and write in French

• Aged at least 18 years old

Phase 2:

• Clinical diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases

• Able to understand French

Exclusion Criteria:

Phase 1:

Group 1:

• History of neurological or neuromuscular disease

• History of any diagnosticated swallowing disorder

Group 2:

• Patients who could not be cataloged as dysphagic or non-dysphagic after the videofluoroscopic study evaluation

• Patients unable to answer the questionnaire

Phase 2:

• Patients who could not be cataloged as dysphagic or non-dysphagic

• Patients unable to answer the questionnaire

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Deglutition Disorders
• Dysphagia
• Neuromuscular Diseases

Intervention

Other:
• Sydney Swallow Questionnaire
The Sydney Swallow Questionnaire (SSQ) is a validated self-report symptom questionnaire, it contains 17 items recorded as visual analogue scales and is a tool specifically designed for evaluation of swallowing difficulties.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc	Brussels
Belgium	Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc	Brussels

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sydney Swallow Questionnaire	The participants were asked to fill out these questionnaires during the outpatient visit.	10 minutes