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- Title
INFLUENCE OF GENDER, AGE, OCCUPATION AND PHONOAUDIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS IN THE VOICE QUALITY OF LIFE.
- Authors
Bastilha, Gabriele Rodrigues; de Moraes Lima, Joziane Padilha; Cielo, Carla Aparecida
- Abstract
Purpose: to investigate and to correlate the responses to Voice-Related Quality Of Life questionnaire and Voice Handicap Index, in a group of subjects according to age, sex, professional use of voice and speech-language diagnosis. Methods: analysis of responses to Voice-Related Quality Of Life questionnaire and Voice Handicap Index and records of 48 subjects, 41 women and seven men; with ages between 18 and 63 years old; six people who use their voices professionally and 42 who do not use their voices professionally; 39 subjects with functional dysphonia, six with organic dysphonia and three with organofunctional dysphonia. Qui-quadrado test and Spearman correlation coefficient (p=0,05). Results: a significant association between sex and emotional score Voice-Related Quality Of Life and Voice Handicap Index; ages with scores Voice-Related Quality Of Life emotional, and physical and emotional Voice Handicap Index; speech-language diagnosis. with the emotional speech of Voice Handicap Index; profession with total score, emotional and physical Voice-Related Quality Of Life, and functional Voice Handicap Index; positive correlation between aspects of each protocol separately and negative correlation between the values of questionnaires. Conclusion: in the study group, there was a higher quality of life in females, decreased quality of life and voice handicap increased with increasing age, the presence of dysphonia organofunctional generated greater voice handicap, voice professionals had a poorer quality of life and greater voice handicap. The protocols showed additional results and useful to measure the impact of voice on quality of life of individuals.
- Subjects
VOICE disorders; QUALITY of life; HUMAN voice -- Social aspects; HUMAN voice; INDUSTRIAL hygiene research; OCCUPATIONS; PATIENTS; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Revista CEFAC, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 6, p1900
- ISSN
1516-1846
- Publication type
Article