Treatment recommendations within dysphagia management are highly variable. Increasing evidence to support restorative treatment approaches is leading to increased use of these approaches by dysphagia clinicians. While all decision-makers are subject to biases in their thinking, it is important that dysphagia clinicians make treatment decisions based on evidence in order to support the best outcomes for their patients.
An online survey was distributed to speech-language pathologists (SLPs) participating in American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) listservs or Montana Speech and Hearing Association (MSHA) membership. Ninety-three SLPs currently treating swallowing disorders participated. Outcome measures included 1) descriptive measures of participant demographics, 2) descriptive measures of strategy recommendations made following review of MBS reports in low and high pathophysiology conditions, 3) correlation analysis measuring relationship between clinician demographic variables and treatment strategy type, and 4) chi-square analysis comparing compensatory and restorative treatment strategy selection within each condition. Results did not indicate a relationship between clinician related variables and treatment recommendation type. Study limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MONTANA/oai:etd.lib.umt.edu:etd-06242014-220137 |
| Date | 26 June 2014 |
| Creators | Murphy, Melissa Colleen |
| Contributors | Laurie Slovarp, Julie Liss, Catherine Off |
| Publisher | The University of Montana |
| Source Sets | University of Montana Missoula |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06242014-220137/ |
| Rights | restricted, I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to University of Montana or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report. |
Page generated in 0.0016 seconds