Swallowing interventions for the treatment of dysphagia after head and neck cancer: a systematic review of behavioural strategies used to promote patient adherence to swallowing exercises

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• 作者：Roganie Govender ; Christina H. Smith ; Stuart A. Taylor ; Helen Barratt…
• 关键词：Dysphagia ; Head neck cancer ; Swallowing exercises ; Behavior change techniques ; Adherence ; Complex interventions
• 刊名：BMC Cancer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：996KB
• 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2407
• 卷排序：17

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BackgroundDysphagia is a significant side-effect following treatment for head and neck cancers, yet poor adherence to swallowing exercises is frequently reported in intervention studies. Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be used to improve adherence, but no review to date has described the techniques or indicated which may be more associated with improved swallowing outcomes.