Cross-Cultural Equivalence and Evaluation of Psychometric Properties of Voice Handicap Index Into Persian

Moradi, Negin; Pourshahbaz, Abbas; Soltani, Majid; Javadipour, Shiva; Hashemi, Hedieh; Soltaninejad, Nasibeh

doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2012.09.006

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“…At the first stage, all participants were asked to answer the Persian version of the VHI questionnaire based on its instruction. 6 At the second stage, all individuals filled in the V-RQOL questionnaire without any later help of or additional explanation by the examiner. These stages took place in a quiet room outside the otorhinolaryngology clinic.…”

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“…31,32 A common method of obtaining some indication of the construct validity of a questionnaire is to examine its ability to differentiate among different patient groups. 6,23,[32][33][34] This kind of validity known as ''known-group discriminative validity'' is a typical method to examine construct validity. 31,32 Therefore, to study the known-group discriminative validity using a method similar to the previous studies, 6,16,17,[23][24][25]30,33,35,36 the total scores and the scores achieved on each of the two subtests for four groups of patients (ie, functional, inflammatory, BVFLs, and neurogenic) were compared with those of the control group.…”

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“…The first developed questionnaire 4 for tracking the effects of voice disorders on patients' life is the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) questionnaire 5 which was translated widely into several languages including Persian. 6 The other well-known self-report questionnaire, which was applied in various clinical studies, 7-11 is voicerelated quality of life (V-RQOL) constructed by Hogikyan and Sethuraman. 12 The comparison of psychometric properties of voice disorder quality of life questionnaires demonstrated that the most complete data were related to VHI and V-RQOL, 13 which was ''psychometrically strongest of the existing measures.''…”

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“…Each question is rated from 0 to 4 on a 5-degree scale: never = 0, rarely = 1, sometimes = 2, often = 3, and always = 4. The total score is between 0 and 120 and it is assumed that the greater each individual's score is, the more negative influence voice will have on his quality of life [15,16,17]. …”

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Voice Handicap Index in Persian Speakers with Various Severities of Hearing Loss

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Dabirmoghaddam

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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the total score and subscale scores of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) in speakers with and without hearing loss. A further aim was to determine if a correlation exists between severities of hearing loss with total scores and VHI subscale scores. Patients and Methods: In this cross-sectional, descriptive analytical study, 100 participants, divided in 2 groups of participants with and without hearing loss, were studied. Background information was gathered by interview, and VHI questionnaires were filled in by all participants. Results: For all variables, including mean total score and VHI subscale scores, there was a considerable difference in speakers with and without hearing loss (p < 0.05). The correlation between severity of hearing loss with total score and VHI subscale scores was significant. Conclusion: Speakers with hearing loss were found to have higher mean VHI scores than speakers with normal hearing. This indicates a high voice handicap related to voice in speakers with hearing loss. In addition, increased severity of hearing loss leads to more severe voice handicap. This finding emphasizes the need for a multilateral assessment and treatment of voice disorders in speakers with hearing loss.

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“…Among the latest additions are Japanese [9], Croatian [10], Persian [11] and Latvian [12]. Verdonck-de Leeuw et al [13] have furthermore validated the VHI by assessing equivalence of the European translation of the questionnaire to the following languages: German, French, Dutch, Italian Portuguese, Belgian and Swedish [13].…”

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The Norwegian Voice Handicap Index (VHI-N) patient scores are dependent on voice-related disease group

Karlsen

Heimdal

Grieg³

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Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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The aim of this study is to determine to what extent the Voice Handicap Index-Norwegian (VHI-N) is scored depending on specific laryngological disease. In a multi-center study, 126 healthy subjects and 355 patients with different voice-related diseases answered the VHI-N. The VHI-N scores showed high Cronbach's alpha. Analyses of variance were performed with VHI-N dependent and specific voice-related disease as independent variable, and showed highly significant dependence by group allocation (F(7,461) = 28.0; p < 0.001). When studying post hoc analyses secondary to this ANOVA analysis, we have shown that the control group scored lower than the entire patient groups (all p < 0.001) except the dysplasia group. Aphonic patients scored higher than all the other groups (all p < 0.001) except those with spasmodic dysphonia. The cancer patient group furthermore scored lower than patient groups with recurrent palsy, dysfunctional disease or spasmodic dysphonia (all p < 0.001). In addition, patients with recurrent palsy scored higher than patients with degenerative/inflammatory disease (p < 0.001). No influences of patient age, gender, or smoking were observed in the VHI-N scores. The VHI-N is a psychometrically well-functioning instrument, also at disease-specific levels and discriminates well between health and voice diseases, as well as between different voice-related diseases. The VHI-N may be recommended to be used when monitoring voice-related disease treatment.

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Cross-Cultural Equivalence and Evaluation of Psychometric Properties of Voice Handicap Index Into Persian

Cited by 73 publications

References 24 publications

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Voice-Related Quality of Life Into Persian

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Voice-Related Quality of Life Into Persian

Voice Handicap Index in Persian Speakers with Various Severities of Hearing Loss

The Norwegian Voice Handicap Index (VHI-N) patient scores are dependent on voice-related disease group

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