The current cervical range of motion (CROM) and tongue movement measurement methods are not reliable between observers, which is not practical in real-world usage. This research is to develop the cervical range of motion measurement, and tongue movement estimation software, to compare between the developed software and the current measurement techniques, and to test in clinical aspects for reliability and validity assessment. The investigators investigate the developed software in healthy people in phase 1. In phases 2 and 3, the investigators compare the software to the standard measurement methods in dysphagic patients who have head and neck cancer for reliability and validity.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
In phase 2, this software will be tested in occupational therapists, and head and neck cancer patients results for reliability and validity. In phase 3, the experiment in the oropharyngeal dysphagia specialists results in content validity, the comparison between the developed software, and VFSS and FOIS results in criterion-related validity, and the experiment in head and neck cancer patients results in reliability.
In phase 3, this study applies VFSS and FOIS for the head and neck cancer patients for comparison with the developed rehabilitation assessment software for criterion-related validity.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Ramathibodhi Hospital
Phaya Thai, Bangkok, Thailand
Intra-rater reliability between the developed rehabilitation assessment software and the standard CROM measurement method.
The same investigator will repeat cervical range of motion measurement by using the developed rehabilitation software and the standard cervical range of motion (CROM) measurement method from the goniometer.
Time frame: One hour
Inter-rater reliability between the developed rehabilitation assessment software and the standard CROM measurement method.
The cervical range of motion (CROM) measurement by using the developed rehabilitation software and the standard CROM measurement method from the goniometer will be repeated by different observers.
Time frame: One hour
Concurrent measurement validity between the developed rehabilitation assessment software and the standard CROM measurement method.
The correlation of the concurrent cervical range of motion (CROM) measurement outcome at approximately the same time between the developed rehabilitation assessment software and the standard CROM measurement method from the goniometer.
Time frame: One hour
Criterion-related validity between the developed rehabilitation assessment software, and VFSS and FOIS.
The criterion-related validity of the rehabilitation assessment software will be assessed by the correlation between the cervical range of motion measurement by the developed rehabilitation assessment software and the functional swallowing assessment by videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study (VFSS), and functional oral intake scale (FOIS).
Time frame: One month
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