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Assessment of the feeding Swallowing Impact Survey as a quality of life measure in children with laryngeal cleft before and after repair.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
August 2017
Division Director, Pediatric Department Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Director, Voice, Airway and Swallowing Center Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Professor Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, United States.
Objective: To cross-validate the Feeding Swallowing Impact Survey (FSIS), a quality of life instrument, specifically to a subpopulation of children who aspirate due to laryngeal cleft.
Introduction: The FSIS is a recently validated instrument used to describe caregiver quality of life (QOL) in children with aspiration due to various causes. To cross-validate the FSIS specifically to the subpopulation of children who aspirate due to laryngeal cleft, we tested the hypotheses that caregivers would report significant different scores form baseline if their children improved at the one year mark postintervention due to either successful conservative or surgical measures (discriminant validity) and would not report significant differences in their FSIS reporting if there was no change in their child's aspiration at the one year mark post intervention (convergent validity).