Interest of Telemedicine in Primary Care in an Multidisability Population Institutionalized (TEDDY)

August 24, 2026 updated by: University Hospital, Toulouse
Swallowing disorders are common and fall within the scope of primary care (as basic, essential health services accessible to all individuals within a community). These swallowing disorders, strongly linked to the environment, do not require, in the majority of cases, a technical and intrusive evaluation. The main objective of this project is to study the relevance of an assessment of dysphagia by teleconsultation

Study Overview

Detailed Description

Experimental procedure: swallowing assessment by telemedicine. During this teleconsultation, the resident will do a food test under the eyes of the CHU specialists. Then an hospitalisation will be done with instrumental evaluation. To complete this visit, a teleexpertise will be scheduled approximately 1 month later.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

62

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

      • Montauban, France, 82 000
        • FAM la Vitarelle
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Dounia Akrouh
      • Montauban, France, 82 000
        • MAS de Granès
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Dounia Akrouh
      • Rieux-Volvestre, France, 31 310
        • Mas Azure
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Noémie Roussel
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Germain Huc, MD
      • Toulouse, France, 31 059
        • Larrey Hospital - Toulouse University Hospital
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Sabine Crestani, MD
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Virginie Woisard, PHD
      • Toulouse, France, 31200
        • MAS Jean de la Fontaine
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Anne Breuillaud
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Gauthier Forni

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients aged ≥ 18 years living in a medical institution (MAS type, FAM from the ASEI network)
  • Indication of a medical swallowing assessment in hospital
  • Person affiliated to or beneficiary of a social security system.
  • Free, informed and written consent signed by the participant or their guardian

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participation in another research including a period of exclusion still ongoing
  • non-movable patient
  • Pregnant woman, Woman of childbearing age without contraception
  • any contraindication to nasofibroscopy and/or fluoroscopy

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Patients with a deglutition disorder
All participants will have deglutition disorder.
The teleconsultation will be scheduled by the UVD programming IDE after contact by the structure team. This teleconsultation will take place in the presence of the patient's care assistant as well as medical staff (IDE, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, speech therapist, etc.) from the institution and a doctor specializing in swallowing and a speech therapist for the university hospital. The resident will do a food test under the eyes of CHU specialists. The patient will be able to test several textures (more or less solid/liquid) prepared in the center in order to be more accurate in their daily life. The meal will be in his familiar environment with his usual caregivers and tools. The CHU team will be able to interact directly with the institution's staff in order to have all the information necessary to determine their conclusions : questions, details on the patient's degree of compliance, etc.
Treatment for swallowing disorders in the hospital sector consists of the patient coming to the university hospital or to a day hospital in order to carry out a swallowing assessment consisting of invasive examinations such as nasofibroscopy (NF), swallowing fluoroscopy (VFS) as well as eating a meal outside the patient's usual context, sometimes in the presence of other people foreign to the patient (source of distractibility and sometimes anxiety).

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Recommendations on food textures
Time Frame: 1 month

Recommendations regarding food textures will be assessed using the IDDSI (International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative) scale during the V1 telemedicine visit and the V2 outpatient visit 15 days later.

This scale consists of 8 categories ranging from 0 ("liquid texture") to 7 ("normal texture"), which are used to assess patients' swallowing abilities.

This scale will be used to assess the recommended solid-textured diet (IDDSI 3 to 7) and liquid-textured diet (IDDSI 0 to 4).

The relevance between the results of the telemedicine and the outpatient visit will be assessed.

1 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Evaluation of the satisfaction in the structures team
Time Frame: 1 month

Satisfaction will be assessed using a satisfaction questionnaire to be completed by caregivers or paramedical staff at medical facilities for the first telemedicine assessment (V1), and then by caregivers accompanying the patient for the second assessment in a hospital setting (V2).

It will consist of 8 questions answered on a scale ranging from 1 to 10. These questions will address satisfaction, the extent to which the consultation was tailored to the patient's needs and disability, the patient's dietary habits and the level of difficulty in conducting the consultation. A "free text comments" field will be available.

1 month
Description of telemedicine treatment: feasibility
Time Frame: 2 weeks

It will be assessed based on a description of how the teleconsultation (V1) is organized and the patient's care pathway, the presence of the usual caregiver during meals, a description of the difficulties encountered in evaluating feasibility and the level of discomfort during the food trial using the ECPA scale (Behavioral Scale for Non-Communicative Older Adults) (composite criterion).

The last scale is based on the observation of the patient's behavior and assesses facial expressions, movements, interactions with others and behavior during the meal. The higher the score, the more severe is the pain.

2 weeks
Description of telemedicine treatment: evaluation methods
Time Frame: 2 weeks
It will be assessed based on the description of the remote ecological evaluation, the assessment of the validity of the telemedicine examination among the various stakeholders, and the collection of data on the type of IDDSI food textures before and after treatment (composite criterion).
2 weeks
Description of care in the hospital sector: feasibility
Time Frame: 1 month
It will be assessed by describing the nature of the hospital visit (inpatient stay or outpatient visit), the presence of the usual caregiver, and the difficulties encountered in assessing feasibility, as well as the level of discomfort associated with medical procedures, using the ECPA scale (composite criterion).
1 month
Description of care in the hospital sector: evaluation methods
Time Frame: 1 month

It will be assessed based on the description of the examinations and procedures performed under optimal conditions:

  • speech-language assessment
  • nasofibroscopy,
  • fluoroscopy of swallowing,
  • consumption of a meal outside the patient's usual daily routine. For the last 3 procedures, the ECPA scale will be used. The diagnostic value of the examination will also be evaluated (composite criterion).
1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sabine Crestani, Service ORL - Hôpital Larrey

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

January 1, 2027

Primary Completion (Estimated)

June 1, 2030

Study Completion (Estimated)

June 1, 2030

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 24, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 24, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

August 28, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 28, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 24, 2026

Last Verified

August 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • RC31/24/0427
  • 2025-A02816-43 (Other Identifier: ID-RCB)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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