NCT03524703

Short-term Effect of Chewing Gum in Patients With Mild-moderate Dysphagia After Anterior Cervical Fusion

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to estimate the effect of chewing gum after anterior cervical fusion surgery on decreasing the severity of dysphagia in patients with mild-moderate dysphagia.

Detailed description

Postoperative dysphagia is the most common complication of anterior cervical fusion surgery. Previous studies showed that chewing gum helped to improve swallow frequency and latency. However, its short-term effect on alleviating dysphagia symptom after anterior cervical surgery is still unknown. A randomized, parallel controlled, superiority trial is performed in patients with postoperative mild-moderate dysphagia. Dysphagia severity will be assessed using dysphagia short questionnaire (DSQ) score in the chewing gum group and control group during 7 days after surgery, and the changes in DSQ score between two groups will be compared, to estimate the effect of chewing gum on alleviating dysphagia symptom.

Conditions

• Dysphagia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	chewing gum	Chewing gum four times per day for 5 days, 15 minutes each time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-28
• Primary completion: 2019-11-30
• Completion: 2019-12-30
• First posted: 2018-05-15
• Last updated: 2018-05-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China