The impact of gender and age on voice related quality of life in children: Normative data

Blumin, Joel H.; Keppel, Kristina L.; Braun, Nicole; Kerschner, Joseph E.; Meratı, Albert L.

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2007.10.015

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“…Table 4 compares this score with other scores obtained from children with other voice disorders recently published in the literature. 10,14,15 The median IFS score was 0.65 (IQR = 0.54, 0.92).…”

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Quality of Life and Voice Outcomes after Thyroid Ala Graft Laryngotracheal Reconstruction in Young Children

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Chadha

Allegro

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Otolaryngol.--head neck surg.

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Section: Quality Of Lifementioning

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Quality of Life and Voice Outcomes after Thyroid Ala Graft Laryngotracheal Reconstruction in Young Children

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Chadha

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Otolaryngol.--head neck surg.

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“…However, the number of studies involving acoustic voice analysis [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] as well as quality of life metrics related to the pediatric voice-disordered population in isolation [8][9][10][11] or in association with auditory-perceptual analyses such as the CAPE-V [12] has significantly increased. Despite the necessity of laryngeal examination to obtain accurate diagnostic information, visualization procedures are not well-tolerated by young children, leading to the evolution of less invasive methods [12][13][14].…”

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Voice disorders in children and its relationship with auditory, acoustic and vocal behavior parameters

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Behlau

2012

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

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“…20 In children, laryngological observations and acoustic, aerodynamic, and perceptual measurements are most often performed; however, subjective evaluation of the vocal disorder by the child him/herself is not routinely carried out. No standardized instruments exist in French; in English, there are, to our knowledge, three questionnaires for children available for purchase-the Pediatric Voice Outcome Survey, a four-item parental proxy adapted from the Voice Outcome Survey [21][22][23] ; the Pediatric Voice Related Quality of Life questionnaire, a 10-item parental proxy adapted from the Voice Related Quality of Life questionnaire [24][25][26] ; and the Pediatric Voice Handicap Index, a 23-item parental proxy adapted from the Voice Handicap Index. 27 These questionnaires exist only in the form of parental proxies, and the child's selfevaluation is not considered.…”

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Voice-Related Complaints in the Pediatric Population

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Subjective evaluation of the voice by the patient is routinely assessed in the adult dysphonic population; this is, however, not the case in the pediatric population. There were three objectives of this study: the first goal was to study the ability of children aged 5-13 years to express themselves about physical, emotional, and sociofunctional aspects of their voice. The second goal was to explore if specific voice-related complaints were expressed by dysphonic children as compared with normophonic children. The third goal was to compare the dysphonic children's voice-related complaints with those of their mothers. The overall objective was to set the grounds for the elaboration of a standardized questionnaire in French concerning subjective evaluation of voice in children. Twenty-five dysphonic children with vocal complaint (15 nodules, one polyp, one microweb, eight unspecified) and 55 normophonic children aged 5-13 years were interviewed. The interviews were semistructured based on a canvas of voice-related questions. The dysphonic children's mothers were interviewed with the mean of a written questionnaire and were invited to discuss their answers orally with the examiner. The results were analyzed qualitatively and statistically. A Chi-square test and the Fisher's test were used to analyze the differences between the complaints expressed by the dysphonic and the normophonic children, and a binomial test was used to compare the children's answers with their mothers' answers. The qualitative analysis of the interviews suggests that children are capable of reflecting over their own voice and of giving autonomous information about different aspects of their voice. It also appeared that voice is a complex phenomenon and that it needs to be clearly and cautiously defined to the children. We identified 27 different complaints related to the voice, out of which 17 were significantly more expressed by dysphonic than by normophonic children (P<0.05). Three of the 27 identified complaints show significant discordances between the mothers and the dysphonic children. The results suggest that children are capable of making a subjective and autonomous evaluation of their voice and that dysphonic children experience significantly more voice-related discomfort than nondysphonic children. The complaints expressed by the dysphonic children and their mothers are not all in concordance. The main conclusion is that a standardized subjective evaluation of the voice, not only by the parents but also by the child him/herself, would be relevant in the assessment of pediatric dysphonia.

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The impact of gender and age on voice related quality of life in children: Normative data

Cited by 24 publications

References 14 publications

Quality of Life and Voice Outcomes after Thyroid Ala Graft Laryngotracheal Reconstruction in Young Children

Quality of Life and Voice Outcomes after Thyroid Ala Graft Laryngotracheal Reconstruction in Young Children

Voice disorders in children and its relationship with auditory, acoustic and vocal behavior parameters

Voice-Related Complaints in the Pediatric Population

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