NCT04437394

Evaluation of Functions of Swallowing and Voice in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yavuz Atar · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study was to determine whether changes that occurred over time had an impact on the swallowing and voice functions depend of Ankylosing spondylitis patients.

Detailed description

This study was carried out at the University of Health Sciences Okmeydani Training and Research Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology. Study was performed on 30 patients and 30 healthy subjects (Group 2) who were diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis using modified New York criterion. The patients were asked to fill the EAT-10 and flexible endoscopic swallowing evaluation was performed. Voice recordings were taken from the patients to evaluate the voice disturbance and acoustic evaluation was taken with PRAAT program.

Conditions

• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Swallowing Disorder.Other Specified
• Voice Alteration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing	The patients were assessment with flexible endoscopic swallowing evaluation was performed with colored pudding.
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	The analysis of voice	Voice recordings were taken from the patients to evaluate the voice disturbance and acoustic evaluation was taken with PRAAT program.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-30
• Primary completion: 2018-10-30
• Completion: 2018-10-30
• First posted: 2020-06-18
• Last updated: 2020-06-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)