The Effect of Swallowing Action Observation Therapy on Resting fMRI in Stroke Patients with Dysphagia

Table 2

Demographic and clinical characteristics of stroke patients and HCs.

	Healthy controls ()	Stroke patients ()	Test statistic	value
Age (year)			-3.147	0.005
Gender (male/female)	6/6	8/4	0.685	0.4076
Edu years (year)			4.619	<0.001
General function
Barthel index	100		13.055	<0.001
Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002)	0		-4.004	<0.001
John Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool (JHFRAT)	0		-9.017	<0.001
Swallowing function
Eating Assessment Tool-10 (EAT-10)	0	Pretreatment	-24.901	<0.001
		Posttreatment	8.486	<0.001

The gender distribution between the two groups was compared using the chi-square test, and the age, education year, Barthel index, NRS2002, JHFRAT, and EAT-10 scores were compared using the independent two-sample -test. A paired -test was used to compare the EAT-10 scores for the stroke group before and after treatment.