Acta Oncol: Compliance in preventive swallowing training in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy (chemotherapy)

In recent years,have been studied to preventswallowing as a means of limiting the difficulty of swallowing in patients with head and neck cancerHowever, there is little record of adherence to exercise programs, limiting the conclusion of the effectiveness of interventionin this study, we investigated the persistence of the preventive swallowing program and identified possible correlations between persistence and the four selected baseline factorsTHE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HPV STATUS, COMPANIONSTATUS, SIMULTANEOUS CHEMOTHERAPY AND TUMOR SITES, AND ADHERENCE TO SWALLOWING EXERCISES AND PARTICIPATION IN SUPERVISED TRAINING SESSIONSstudies, adherence to interventions was based on training-logs provided by participantsThe exercise program includes a 30-minute supervised course three times a week and a family exercise program 3 times a dayCompliance is calculated as a percentage of the required movement and by the sub-dicalmethods of high (.80% median) and low (80% median)The relationship between compliance and clinical/demographic factors (HPV, partner status, chemotherapy, tumor site or level of consultation) was explored through logistic regression analysisresults, 45 (76%) participants provided complete compliance dataThe practice persistence rate for the number of digits in the total queue was 78%No association between the test factors and compliance was foundstudy found that HNC patients who underwent radiotherapy (chemotherapy) had a high degree of compliance with preventive swallowing exercises compared to other studies, both in the home and under supervision, even though the median compliance of home exercises was below the prescribed 80 percent thresholdwe acknowledge that compliance in RCT may be higher than in everyday clinical conditions due to monitoring biasHowever, it is gratifying that HNC patients follow a preventive swallowing program, which requires some time