Perception of parents on the quality of life in voice and clinical outcomes in dysphonic children before and after speech therapy group
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dysphonia, voice disorders, group practice, quality of life, voice.Abstract
Objective: verify the parent’s perception about the quality of life in dysphonic voice of children, pre and post-language therapy group, and relate it to the data of the evolution of speech voice. Methods: longitudinal study, whose sample consisted of 6 children (4 girls and 2 boys) aged between 7 and 10 years old diagnosed with functional dysphonia or organofunctional who underwent speech therapy group. Before and after therapy, the parents responded to the protocol Pediatric Voice Outcome Survey - PVOS” and the children went through perceptual evaluation and acoustic voice. Patients were treated in a single group through 12 sessions of 40 minutes each. Data were analyzed statistically. Results: There was no significant difference regarding the mean scores achieved in the PVOS, pre and post-therapy. As for perceptual analysis, there was no difference between the two evaluations for the parameter “overall grade of dysphonia.” Regarding the acoustic analysis, there was progress on the measures of jitter and shimmer and no difference to the fundamental frequency. There were no significant differences for any of the intersections regarding clinical outcome (perceptual and acoustic) and quality of life in voice. Conclusion: there was no relationship between the quality of life in voice of children referred by parents, and evaluation of their voice parameters, both before and after the therapeutic process of 12 group sessions.Downloads
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Copyright (c) 2013 Vanessa Veis Ribeiro, Ana Paula Dassie Leite, Luiz de Lacerda Filho, Carla Aparecida Cielo, Maria Fernanda Bagarollo
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