Clinical Trial: The Pediatric Eating Assessment Tool
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: The Development of the Pediatric Eating Assessment Tool (PEDI-EAT-10)
Brief Summary: There is no dysphagia spesific and patient/parent centered outcome instrument in the pediatric population. The purpose of this investigation is to develop the Pediatric version of the Eating Assessment Tool (PEDI-EAT-10) and investigate its validity and reliability.
Detailed Summary: The evaluation of pediatric swallowing disorders includes clinical and instrumental techniques. The clinical evaluation is important for clinical decision-making and to assess the need for an instrumental evaluation of swallowing. A recent systematic review suggested that the currently available non-instrumental assessments for clinicians to evaluate swallowing and feeding function in the pediatric population have wide variations in design, assessment domains, and target groups. It was concluded that there is a significant need for standardized assessment tools with good psychometric properties in the pediatric population. The existing instruments measure the presence or absence and frequency of challenges related to eating/feeding problems in pediatrics, they do not comprehensively measure oropharyngeal phase swallowing problems or do not reflect the severity of oropharyngeal dysphagia symptoms. The 10-item Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10), which was designed for adult patients, is a good model for this current research. It has proven highly successful in quantifying initial dysphagia symptom severity and in monitoring treatment efficacy in a vast array of dysphagia etiologies. Although the EAT-10 is a symptom survey, it has been able to predict objective evidence of swallowing dysfunction. There is no dysphagia spesific and patient/parent centered outcome instrument in the pediatric population such as the EAT-10. The purpose of this investigation is to develop the Pediatric version of the Eating Assessment Tool (PEDI-EAT-10) and investigate its validity and reliability.
Sponsor: Hacettepe University
Current Primary Outcome: Development of the scale steps [ Time Frame: 10 days ]
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome: Investigation of the psychometric properties of the scale [ Time Frame: 6 MONTHS ]
Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current
Information By: Hacettepe University
Dates:
Date Received: August 19, 2016
Date Started: January 2016
Date Completion:
Last Updated: December 25, 2016
Last Verified: December 2016