Validation and Cultural Adaptation of the Arabic Version of the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10)
Mesallam, Mohamed Farahat and Tamer A. . 2016
Background and Objectives: The Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) is a 10-item self-administered questionnaire. It is a noninvasive tool to measure patients’ perception of their swallowing problems. The purposes of the present study were to develop an Arabic version of the EAT-10 and to eval- uate its validity, consistency, and reliability in the Arabic- speaking population with oropharyngeal dysphagia. Set- ting and Design: This was a prospective study carried out at the Communication and Swallowing Disorders Unit, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Subjects and Meth- ods: The Arabic EAT-10 was administered to 138 patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia and 83 control subjects. In- ternal consistency and test-retest reliability were evaluated. Content and clinical validity were studied, and the EAT-10 results were compared across patients and control groups. Results: The Arabic EAT-10 showed excellent internal consis- tency (Cronbach’s α = 0.92). Also, good test-retest reliability was found for the total scores of the Arabic EAT-10 (intraclass
correlation = 0.73). There was a significant difference in Ara- bic EAT-10 scores between the oropharyngeal dysphagia group and the control group (p < 0.001). Conclusion: This study demonstrated that the Arabic EAT-10 is a valid tool that can be used for screening of dysphagia-related prob- lems in an Arabic-speaking population.
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