%0 Journal Article
%A Sánchez-Sánchez, Eduardo
%A Avellaneda-López, Ylenia
%A García-Marín, Esperanza
%A Ramírez-Vargas, Guillermo
%A Díaz-Jimenez, Jara
%A Ordonez, Francisco Javier
%T Knowledge and Practice of Health Professionals in the Management of Dysphagia.
%D 2021
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/17300
%X The aim of this study was to determine healthcare providers' knowledge and practices about dysphagia. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out based on a self-administered and anonymous questionnaire addressed to healthcare providers in Spain. A total of 396 healthcare providers participated in the study. Of these, 62.3% knew the definition of dysphagia as a swallowing disorder. In addition, up to 39.2% of the participants reported that they did not know whether the EatingAssessmentTool (EAT-10) dysphagia screening test was usedin their own clinical settings. Similarly, up to 49.1% of them did not know the ClinicalExaminationVolume-Viscosity (MECV-V) method. Nearly all participants (98.8%) reported that thickeners must be used forall liquids administered to patients. A higher percentage of respondents based the choice of texture on patient's tolerance (78.2%) rather than on the MECV-V result (17.3%). In addition,76.4% of the professionals had witnessed a bronchoaspiration; after it, 44.4% (n = 175) of them reported the appearance of pneumonia, and 14.5% (n = 57) the death of the patient (p = 0.005). The participants revealeda moderate/low knowledge ofthe definition, diagnosis, and clinical management of liquid dysphagia, which indicates some room for improvements.
%K MECV-V
%K bronchoaspiration
%K dysphagia
%K health professionals
%K pneumonia
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