SE Egészségtudományi Kar, Vas u. 17. 504.sz. terem
2024-11-21 13:00:00
Interdisciplinary applied health sciences
Dr. Vingender István
Balogh Zoltán és Dr. Folyovich András
Dr. Fent Zoltán
Dr. Molnár-Tóth Alinka
Dr. Hacki Tamás
Dr. Kovács Tibor
Dr. Oláh László
In this paper, we reviewed the general characteristics of swallowing and swallowing disorders, their conservative therapeutic options and focused on the largest population, stroke patients. In the field of post-stroke dysphagia, we were the first in our country to conduct research to improve patient care, aiming at screening and bedside assessment of dysphagia. Although the topic has a decades-long history worldwide, it is still new in our country, and therefore requires the mastery of several tools and methods by stroke care professionals, which need to be adapted with scientific demand. In this thesis, we presented a systematic literature review, which we tried to carry out according to strict research methodology principles. As a result, the Gugging Swallowing Screen was considered suitable for domestic adaptation. With the permission of the original author and with appropriate methodology, we prepared a version adapted for Hungarian care, which was then validated against a fibroscopic swallowing test in 31 patients. Two additional studies were included in the validation process in order to obtain objective data. One was a measure of tongue strength, and the other was a performance test, the repetitive saliva swallow test. As a result of our work, the GUSS-H has been made freely available to colleagues working in stroke care and further potential areas of research have been identified to improve domestic care and integrate international research findings.
