Table 4.
Associations among the MDADI, the DHI, the Dysphagia Severity Scale, and the FOIS (nonparametric Spearman’s correlation coefficients)
| MDADI | DHI | Dysphagia Severity Scale | FOISa | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total score | Global assessment | Emotional subscore | Functional subscore | Physical subscore | Total score | Emotional subscore | Functional subscore | Physical subscore | |||
| MDADI | |||||||||||
| Total score | 0.75** (74) | 0.94** (74) | 0.92** (74) | 0.91** (74) | −0.87** (41) | −0.89** (44) | −0.70** (43) | −0.57** (42) | 0.45** (57) | 0.53** (74) | |
| Global assessment | 0.68** (75) | 0.72** (75) | 0.66** (75) | −0.72** (42) | −0.65** (46) | −0.64** (44) | −0.65** (44) | 0.57** (57) | 0.44** (76) | ||
| Emotional subscore | 0.81** (74) | 0.82** (74) | −0.85** (41) | −0.93** (45) | −0.63** (43) | −0.52** (43) | 0.43** (57) | 0.46** (75) | |||
| Functional subscore | 0.77** (75) | −0.82** (41) | −0.86** (45) | −0.65** (44) | −0.54** (43) | 0.34** (57) | 0.53** (75) | ||||
| Physical subscore | −0.82** (41) | −0.75** (45) | −0.78** (44) | −0.62** (43) | 0.44** (57) | 0.45** (75) | |||||
| DHI | |||||||||||
| Total score | 0.89** (42) | 0.84** (42) | 0.78** (42) | −0.52** (30) | −0.41** (42) | ||||||
| Emotional subscore | 0.60** (44) | 0.54** (44) | −0.43* (31) | −0.13 (44) | |||||||
| Functional subscore | 0.66** (42) | −0.50** (31) | −0.36* (44) | ||||||||
| Physical subscore | −0.45** (32) | −0.40** (46) | |||||||||
| Dysphagia Severity Scale | 0.38** (57) | ||||||||||
| FOIS | |||||||||||
* Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
** Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
aLower scores indicate more severely impaired oral intake