Table 4 RSI and DHI by severity of swallowing before and after medical treatment
Before medical treatment | After medical treatment | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal | Moderate | Severe | Kruskal-Wallis test | P value | Normal | Moderate | Severe | Mann-Whitney test | P value | ||
Severity of swallow | n | 3 | 51 | 6 | 48 | 12 | 0 | ||||
% | 5 | 85 | 10 | 80 | 20 | 0 | |||||
RSI | 8.33 ± 2.51 | 14.78 ± 4.1 | 21.3 ± 3.1 | 15.8 | 0.00 | 6.81 ± 3.9 | 11.75 ± 2.18 | – | −3.96 | 0.00 | |
Functional | 13.33 ± 16.65 | 20.35 ± 10.02 | 24 ± 6.57 | 0.93 | 0.63 | 12.29 ± 11.31 | 14.5 ± 5.97 | – | −1.16 | 0.24 | |
Physical | 8 ± 8.71 | 17.88 ± 9.79 | 26.33 ± 7.2 | 7.1 | 0.03 | 4.38 ± 7.34 | 11 ± 8.59 | – | −2.39 | 0.02 | |
Emotional | 1.33 ± 2.3 | 11.41 ± 8.59 | 16.67 ± 8.54 | 7.04 | 0.03 | 1.54 ± 3.6 | 7.5 ± 5.85 | – | −3.82 | 0.00 | |
Total | 22.67 ± 24.68 | 49.75 ± 22.3 | 67 ± 15.6 | 7.76 | 0.02 | 18.21 ± 14.56 | 33 ± 11.36 | – | −3.01 | 0.00 | |