Abstract:
Executive Summary
Introduction
Eating and drinking problem is common after stroke. It may impact on normal
swallowing function and may cause for death. Studies say that most of the patients
reduce their awareness about their eating and drinking skills after stroke. Therefore
this study was included multiple objectives to measure patient’s awareness. It would
be helpful for the clinician to understand patient’s awareness about their swallowing
function and it would be helpful toward assessment, diagnosis and treatment more
accurately.
Objective
The main objective of the study was to explore patient’s awareness about their eating
and drinking skills pre and post stroke dysphagia treatment.
Methodology
The study design was pretest-posttest under pre-experimental research. Purposive
sampling procedure was followed and used a structure questionnaire to collect data.
The data was analyzed using the calculation of inferential statistics parametric related
t-test. To support the hypothesis and/or reject the null hypothesis the investigator used
related t-test to find out ‘p’ value so that the result can be significant.
Results
The result shows participant’s awareness was reduced before treatment. But after
receiving treatment they increased awareness about their eating and drinking skills
where the ‘p’ value (<.0005) was significant.
Conclusion
Studies show the majority of stroke patients are unlikely reduced awareness about
their eating and drinking skills. But after treatment they acknowledge their eating and
drinking problems. So, investigator intended to measure the patient’s awareness about
their eating and drinking skills pre and post stroke dysphagia treatment from this
study.
