02001caa a2200205   4500008004100000022001400041100001900055245009300074260005300167270004000220270010400260270002600364300001000390490001400400520116800414653006701582700002201649773005501671856006901726210621s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a2582-4961  aShreya Kothari 0aAssessment of quality of life in individuals with dysphagia: a questionnaire in Marathi   bAll India Institute of Speech and Hearing c2014  aPrivate practitioner, Indore, India  aSchool of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University,Pune, India  mchandrohini@yahoo.com  a39-50  vVolume 33  aThe study aimed at developing a questionnaire for assessing quality of life in individuals with dysphagia. The study was carried out in two phases; rst phase included preparation of a questionnaire in English which was later translated to Marathi using forward and backward translation. In the second phase, the developed questionnaire was administered on thirty-ve adults with dysphagia. Item analysis was performed on scores obtained for each statement of the questionnaire by individuals with dysphagia. Eight items required deletion after inter-item correlation leaving 47 statements in the nal questionnaire, Dysphagia Quality of Life Questionnaire in Marathi (D-QOL-QM), which were divided into four sections; functional, eating, psychosocial and, physical section. Overall cronbach's alpha coecient was very high (a=0.93) which shows that the questionnaire has good reliablity. Results on Pearson's correlation showed good internal consistency and highly signicant moderate to high correlation for sections of questionnaire. This study provides a reliable clinical tool, D-QOL-QM, for assessing impact of dysphagia on individual's life in Indian scenario.   aDysphagia, Questionnaire, Quality of life, Impact of dysphagia  aRohini Chand-Mall  aJournal of All India Institute of Speech & Hearing  uhttp://192.168.102.7/jaiish/index.php/aiish/article/view/779/471