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Health-Related Quality of Life Metrics in Patients With Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction.

Jacobs D, Duffy JE, Lerner BA, Lerner MZ

Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol . 2025;134 (9) :663-670

📅 01/09/2025 PMID : 40420548 DOI : 10.1177/00034894251342088

Résumé

OBJECTIVE: We sought to objectively characterize functional quality of life and social anxiety metrics in patients with retrograde - cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD) using validated questionnaires.METHODS: A survey was posted to a private R-CPD Facebook group and a public R-CPD Reddit group. The survey contained demographic and clinical questions, as well as the PROMIS-29 questionnaire and the Social Anxiety Questionnaire (SAQ). The PROMIS-29 questionnaire contains 7 subdomains of quality of life functioning and is scored against a national average. The SAQ is a 30-item questionnaire with 5 subdomains of social anxiety. Comparisons of means were performed using -tests and logistic regressions.RESULTS: Survey results from 239 respondents were included. The majority of respondents were young (