Drooling in children with cerebral palsy: a qualitative method to evaluate parental perceptions of its impact on daily life, social interaction, and self-esteem.

摘要: Research on the treatment of drooling applies measures such as salivary flow rate, qualitative observations severity in standardized situations, and anecdotal or one-dimensional parental teacher reports. To assess a range everyday conditions, its impact daily life children their families, two parent questionnaires were constructed. Results baseline measurements 43 with cerebral palsy showed that measured variation across enabled evaluation ability to eat, drink speak, care, economic consequences, social interactions. The section self-esteem appeared not be fully applicable for non-speaking low developmental status. offer method evaluate perceptions effectiveness interventions reduce drooling.