Abstract

GUTIERREZ-ACHURY, ALEJANDRA MARÍA; RUALES SUAREZ, KAREM; GIRALDO CADAVID, LUIS FERNANDO  and  RENGIFO VARONA, MARIA LEONOR. SCALES OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND ASSESSMENT OF SYMPTOMS IN DYSPHAGIA. rev.fac.med [online]. 2015, vol.23, n.1, pp.50-55. ISSN 0121-5256.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rmed.1329.

Dysphagia it is a symptom with repercussions in life quality of any individual who suffer it. In the same way, it could be related to many respiratory and nutritional complications that will have an impact in different psychosocial aspects. For this reason it has been established parameters in order to evaluate the life quality of the patients with this condition. On the other hand, it is important to recognize the characteristic symptoms of dysphagia in order to be detected appropriately by the health community, for which reason has been also the development of scales. The life quality scales and the evaluation of symptoms are important instruments because provides valuable information to the doctor in charge about the perception of the current health condition of the patients, the key symptoms and the effects of a therapeutic intervention. In this paper we describe the characteristics and psychometric properties of the instruments available to the evaluation of life quality and the assessment of the symptoms of the patients with dysphagia.

Keywords : Dysphagia; scales; quality of life.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )