Sánchez-Sánchez, EduardoAvellaneda-López, YleniaGarcía-Marín, EsperanzaRamírez-Vargas, GuillermoDíaz-Jimenez, JaraOrdonez, Francisco Javier2023-02-092023-02-092021-02-22http://hdl.handle.net/10668/17300The 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.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/MECV-Vbronchoaspirationdysphagiahealth professionalspneumoniaCross-Sectional StudiesDeglutition DisordersHealth PersonnelHumansSpainViscosityresearch article33671732open access10.3390/ijerph180421391660-4601PMC7926391https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/4/2139/pdf?version=1614139987https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7926391/pdf