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Dysphagia and daily oral fluids among cerebrovascular stroke patients: an theory-based nursing intervention protocol Cover

Dysphagia and daily oral fluids among cerebrovascular stroke patients: an theory-based nursing intervention protocol

Open Access
|Jun 2023

Abstract

Objective

To evaluate the improvement of dysphagia and the daily amounts of oral fluids served among people who had recently experienced a cerebrovascular stroke (CVS) after applying a nursing intervention protocol.

Methods

A quasi-experimental design was used to examine 60 stroke patients who were randomly and alternatively divided equally into a study group and a control group. Gugging Swallowing Screen (GUSS) and fluid balance chart were used. Within the first 24 h of a patient’s admission, expert nurses were trained in nursing intervention protocol to manage dysphagia and daily oral fluids.

Results

Post-nursing intervention, the severity of dysphagia decreased among the study group more than in the control group. Additionally, the study group began taking greater amounts of fluids by the oral route than before the nursing intervention.

Conclusions

A standardized nursing intervention protocol is needed to decrease the severity of dysphagia after CVS and increase the amount of daily oral fluids. The presence of a structured theory-based nursing intervention protocol for dysphagia management will greatly contribute to decreasing the consequences of dysphagia after CVS, and can also be expected to attenuate the effects of aspiration pneumonia, dehydration, and malnutrition; further, it also increases adherence to the protocol by both nurses and patients.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2023-0022 | Journal eISSN: 2544-8994 | Journal ISSN: 2097-5368
Language: English
Page range: 213 - 222
Submitted on: Sep 3, 2022
Accepted on: Nov 21, 2022
Published on: Jun 22, 2023
Published by: Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year

© 2023 Zeinab Hussein Ali, Marwa Abd-Elaziz, Amany Abdrbo, published by Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.