ArticleDysphagia2012
A cross-sectional validation study of the Swedish version of SWAL-QOL.
Article in Dysphagia, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Quality of life in stroke patients with dysphagia: a systematic review.La Tunisie medicalePooled it
- Effects of oral neuromuscular training on swallowing dysfunction among older people in intermediate care-a cluster randomised, controlled trial.Age and ageing · 2019Trial
- Study protocol for the SOFIA project: Swallowing function, Oral health, and Food Intake in old Age: a descriptive study with a cluster randomized trial.BMC geriatrics · 2017Trial
- Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Sydney Swallow Questionnaire in Urdu and Its Psychometric Properties Among Post-Stroke Dysphagia Patients.World journal of otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery · 2026Article
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- Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Swallowing Quality of Life Questionnaire in Fibromyalgia Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Translation and Validation of Kannada Version of the Swallowing Quality of Life Questionnaire (KSWAL-QOL).Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024Article
- Translation and Validation of the Tamil Version of the Dysphagia Handicap Index in Tamil-Speaking Patients.Cureus · 2023Article
- Reliability and Validity of the Chinese Mandarin Version of the Swallowing Quality of Life Questionnaire.Dysphagia · 2021Article
- Quality of care in dysphagia patients: adaptation and validation of the Swedish SWAL-CARE questionnaire.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2020Article
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- Cultural adaptation and validation of the Norwegian version of the swallowing quality of life questionnaire (SWAL-QOL).Health and quality of life outcomes · 2019Article
- Using Rasch Analysis to Evaluate the Reliability and Validity of the Swallowing Quality of Life Questionnaire: An Item Response Theory Approach.Dysphagia · 2018Article
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- A comparison of the swallowing function and quality of life by oral intake level in stroke patients with dysphagia.Journal of physical therapy science · 2017Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Swallowing Quality of Life questionnaire (SWAL-QOL). The study design was cross-sectional and the study was performed in patients with subjective oropharyngeal dysphagia due to head and neck (H&N) cancer (n = 85) or neurological disease (n = 30) and in a sample of age- and gender-matched controls (mean age = 63 years, 57% males) without subjective dysphagia (n = 115). The Short-Form 36 (SF-36) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaires were used for assessment of convergent and discriminant validity. The Swedish version of SWAL-QOL was well accepted, the response rate was high (>90%), and the number of missing items were very low (<1%). Overall, the questionnaire showed good to excellent psychometric properties, including floor and ceiling effects (range = 0-16 and 0-21%), internal consistency [Cronbach's α > 0.70 for all domains except Eating Duration (0.69) and Sleep (0.68)], test-retest reliability (intraclass correlations = 0.75-0.98) and convergent and discriminant validity as assessed by correlations between SWAL-QOL and SF-36 and HADS. SWAL-QOL also proved able to differentiate between dysphagic and nondysphagic patients (P < 0.00001) (known-groups validity) and sensitive to disease severity as measured by different food textures.
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