2017 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 173-180
Objectives: To find evidence related to dysphagia intervention, this study aimed to clarify the time and heritability of which participants to perform exercises for dysphagia prevention.
Methods: Participants were adult twins. They exercised for dysphagia intervention three times a day for two weeks. We computed the means and standard deviations (SD) of the number of times that an exercise was performed in a day. By univariate genetic analyses, we calculated the heritability.
Results: In total, 28 twin pairs (n＝56) participated; 86% were monozygotic, and 77% were females. The mean of age was 58.6 (SD＝11.7) years. The heritability of execution times of exercises at first five days was 0.65. The heritability to exercise execution on weekend (0.00) is lower than that of weekday (0.38-0.50).
Conclusions: There is not significant difference through all periods. In the early part of the initiation, health professionals should have knowledge on the genetic characteristics of patients. On the other hand, environmental changes would be effective to prevent forgetting the exercise on the weekend.
