Murray Hurtado Mercedes, Blanco Castilla Irene, Hernández Coronado Noemi, Milà Villarroel Raimon
Servicio de Pediatría, Sección Nutrición y Errores Innatos del Metabolismo, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Universidad de la Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
An Pediatr (Engl Ed). 2023 Apr;98(4):249-256. doi: 10.1016/j.anpede.2023.03.001. Epub 2023 Mar 15.
The Pedi-EAT-10 is a quick and simple validated tool for screening for dysphagia in the paediatric age group. The objective of our study was to translate and adapt the scale to Spanish and assess its psychometric properties, level of difficulty and speed of completion.
Following the forward and back translation and the approval by the research team of the Spanish version of the Pedi-EAT-10, we carried out a prospective study in a group of patients with dysphagia and a group of children who were healthy or had minor disease. Their legal guardians completed the questionnaire and reported the duration and difficulty of the test.
The study included 87 cases of dysphagia and 91 controls. The Cronbach alpha for internal consistency was 0.87. Most correlations between single item scores and the total scale score were greater than 0.65 (P < .001). The Pedi-EAT-10 scores were significantly higher in patients with dysphagia in every age group (P < .001), evincing a high sensibility and specificity for the screening of dysphagia. In the control group, the mean time taken to complete the questionnaire was 2.18 ± 1.98 min, and all participants found it easy.
We verified the validity, reliability and internal consistency of the Spanish version of the Pedi-EAT-10. It is an easy and quick instrument that can be used for screening of dysphagia in paediatric clinical practice.
儿童吞咽困难评估量表（Pedi-EAT-10）是一种快速简便且经过验证的工具，用于筛查儿科年龄组的吞咽困难。我们研究的目的是将该量表翻译成西班牙语并进行改编，评估其心理测量特性、难度水平和完成速度。
在完成Pedi-EAT-10西班牙语版的正向和反向翻译并经研究团队批准后，我们对一组吞咽困难患者以及一组健康或患有轻微疾病的儿童进行了前瞻性研究。他们的法定监护人填写问卷并报告测试所需时间和难度。
该研究纳入了87例吞咽困难患者和91例对照。内部一致性的Cronbach α系数为0.87。单项得分与总分之间的大多数相关性大于0.65（P <.001）。各年龄组吞咽困难患者的Pedi-EAT-10得分均显著更高（P <.001），表明该量表对吞咽困难筛查具有较高的敏感性和特异性。在对照组中，完成问卷的平均时间为2.18 ± 1.98分钟，所有参与者都认为该问卷很容易。
我们验证了Pedi-EAT-10西班牙语版的有效性、可靠性和内部一致性。它是一种简便快捷的工具，可用于儿科临床实践中的吞咽困难筛查。
