Usefulness of Provisional Translation Japanese Version Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) Questionnaire Screening Swallowing

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  • 嚥下スクリーニング質問紙EAT-10 暫定版の有用性の検討

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<p>In recent years, questionnaires have been used for conducting effective interviews (medical history) for dysphagia. We translated the original English edition of the 10-item Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10; Belafsky et al., 2008) into Japanese. The original questionnaire consisted of 10 questions and was developed in the United States. The translated questionnaire that was used as a provisional version of the EAT- 10 was examined from the following viewpoints: whether suitable for assessing Japanese subjects and whether appropriate that scoring 3 points in total would be a criterion for suspected dysphagia, similar to that in the original edition. The subjects were 145 patients who were admitted to the convalescent rehabilitation ward (mean age, 67.8±1.2 years). Fifty-eight patients were diagnosed with dysphagia by the medical care team. These subjects completed the provisional EAT-10 version within 2 weeks after hospitalization, and the sensitivity and specificity of the survey results were calculated using each total score. A cutoff value that could be used to diagnose suspected dysphagia was determined. According to the criterion similar to that in the original edition of the EAT-10, 66 subjects who scored total 3 points or more were diagnosed with suspected dysphagia. Considering the numbers of dysphagia patients diagnosed by the medical care team and those diagnosed with suspected dysphagia based on the provisional EAT-10 version score of total 3 points or more, the sensitivity and specificity were assessed as 77.6% and 75.9%, respectively.</p><p>Consequently, we consider that the provisional version of the EAT-10 with the cutoff value of 3 points or more, similar to that in the original edition, could be used in Japan.</p>

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