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Mohamed Farahat Ibrahim Desouky, MD, PhD, CPHQ, CPPS, CPKPI

Professor

Consultant, Communication and Swallowing Disorders Unit

كلية الطب
King AbdulAziz University Hospitals, Building 3, level 4
publication
Journal Article
2014

Development of the Arabic Version of Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI)

FarahatM, Malki KH, Mesallam TA, Bukhari M, Alharethy S, . 2014

The Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI) is a 25-item self-administered questionnaire. It is a noninvasive tool for measuring the handicapping effect of dysphagia on the physical, functional, and emotional aspects of people's lives. The purposes of the present study were to develop an Arabic version of the DHI and to evaluate its validity, consistency, and reliability in the normal Arabic population with oropharyngeal dysphagia. This was a prospective study that was carried out at the Communication and Swallowing Disorders Unit, King Saud University. The generated Arabic DHI was administered to 94 patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia and 98 control subjects. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were evaluated. The results of the patients and the control group were compared. The Arabic DHI showed excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.95). Also, good test-retest reliability was found for the total scores of the Arabic DHI (r = 0.9, p = 0.001). There was a significant difference between the DHI scores of the control group and those of the oropharyngeal dysphagia group (p < 0.001). This study demonstrated that the Arabic DHI is a valid tool for self-assessment of the handicapping effect of dysphagia on the physical, functional, and emotional aspects of patients and can be used by Arabic language speakers. 

 

 

Magazine \ Newspaper
Dysphagia
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The Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI) is a 25-item self-administered questionnaire. It is a noninvasive tool for measuring the handicapping effect of dysphagia on the physical, functional, and…

by Malki KH, Mesallam TA, Bukhari M, Alharethy S, FarahatM
2014
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Objective. The aims of this study were to obtain normative nasalance scores for a normal Saudi population with different ages and genders, to develop nasometric Arabic speech materials, and to…

by Hassan S, Mesallam TA, Malki KH, Farahat M, Alfaris, El-KassabiRM
2014
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: 

by , Aldaghri F, Mesallam TA, Farahat M, Bukhari MA AlharethyS
2014