Reliability and Validity of a Simplified Comprehensive Assessment Tool for Feeding Support: Kuchi-Kara Taberu Index

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2016, Pages e248-e252

  Maeda, Keisuke ^a   Shamoto, Hiroshi ^b   Wakabayashi, Hidetaka ^c   Enomoto, Junko ^a   Takeichi, Mika ^d   Koyama, Tamami ^d  

^a Tamana Regional Health Medical Center   (Japan)

^b MINAMISOMA MUNICIPAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d Kuchi kara Taberu Shiawase wo Mamoru kai   (Japan)

Author keywords

assessment tool; eating difficulty; swallowing difficulty; validation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EATING; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); KUCHI KARA TABERU INDEX; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SWALLOWING; VALIDITY; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; ORAL HEALTH; POSTURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84999672407     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14508     Document Type: Article

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