SynthesisDysphagia2018
Psychometric Characteristics of Non-instrumental Swallowing and Feeding Assessments in Pediatrics: A Systematic Review Using COSMIN.
Synthesis in Dysphagia, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review of validated parent-reported questionnaires assessing swallowing dysfunction in otherwise healthy infants and toddlers.Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale · 2021Pooled it
- Parent-delivered interventions used at home to improve eating, drinking and swallowing in children with neurodisability: the FEEDS mixed-methods study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2021Pooled it
- Behavioural Interventions and Botulinum Toxin Injections for Drooling, Swallowing, Feeding, and Oral-Motor Outcomes in Children: A Domain-Specific Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Adaptation of the Italian Version of the Mealtime Assessment Scale in Pediatric Population (MAS-p).Dysphagia · 2026Article
- The Pediatric Screening-Priority Evaluation Dysphagia: Validation of a new tool for screening swallowing disorders in infants and children.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2026Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of the gugging swallowing screen (GUSS) in detecting aspiration and dysphagia in patients with unilateral vocal fold paralysis.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- The Oropharyngeal Dysphagia Screening Test for Patients and Professionals: Validation in Cognitive Impairment and in Severe Mental Illness.Dysphagia · 2025Article
- Cultural adaptation and psychometric characteristics of the child oral and motor proficiency scale (ChOMPS)-Turkish version.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2025Article
- Baby Intensive Early Active Treatment (babiEAT): A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Feeding Therapy for Infants with Cerebral Palsy and Oropharyngeal Dysphagia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Development and Pilot Study of a Pediatric Screening for Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Infants and Children: The Pediatric Screening-Priority Evaluation Dysphagia (PS-PED).Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Reliability and Validity of Non-Instrumental Clinical Assessments for Adults with Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Pediatric dysphagia overview: best practice recommendation study by multidisciplinary experts.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2022Review
- White Paper by the European Society for Swallowing Disorders: Screening and Non-instrumental Assessment for Dysphagia in Adults.Dysphagia · 2022Review
- Lung ultrasound in young children with neurological impairment: A proposed integrative clinical tool for deaeration-detection related to feeding.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Paediatric oral sensorimotor interventions for chewing dysfunction: A scoping review.International journal of language & communication disorders · 2021Article
- Working With School-Aged Children With Neurodisability and Oropharyngeal Dysphagia Who Require Mealtime Assistance: A Survey of Speech and Language Therapists' Clinical Practice.International journal of language & communication disordersArticle
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
As early diagnosis of swallowing and feeding difficulties in infants and children is of utmost importance, there is a need to evaluate the quality of the psychometric properties of pediatric assessments of swallowing and feeding. A systematic review was performed summarizing the psychometric properties of non-instrumental assessments for swallowing and feeding difficulties in pediatrics; no data were identified for the remaining twelve assessments. The COSMIN taxonomy and checklist were used to evaluate the methodological quality of 23 publications on psychometric properties. For each assessment, an overall quality score for each measurement property was determined. As psychometric data proved incomplete, conflicting or indeterminate for all assessments, only preliminary conclusions could be drawn; the most robust assessment based on current data is the dysphagia disorder survey (DDS). However, further research is needed to provide additional information on all psychometric properties for all assessments.
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