Voice Handicap Index and Interpretation of the Cutoff Points Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve as Screening for Young Adult Female Smokers.

Autor: Tafiadis D; Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Ioannina, Greece. Electronic address: d.tafiadis@ioa.teiep.gr., Kosma EI; Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece., Chronopoulos SK; Department of Computer Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Arta, Greece., Papadopoulos A; Department of Paediatrics, Karamandanio General Children's Hospital NHS, Patra, Greece., Drosos K; Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Ioannina, Greece., Siafaka V; Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Ioannina, Greece., Toki EI; Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Ioannina, Greece., Ziavra N; Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Ioannina, Greece.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation [J Voice] 2018 Jan; Vol. 32 (1), pp. 64-69. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Apr 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2017.03.009
Abstrakt: The relationship between smoking and alterations of the vocal tract and larynx is well known. This pathology leads to the degradation of voice performance in daily living. Multiple assessment methods of vocal tract and larynx have been developed, and in recent years they were enriched with self-reported questionnaires such as Voice Handicap Index (VHI). This study determined the cutoff points of VHI's total score and its three domains for young female smokers in Greece. These estimated cutoff points could be used by voice specialists as an indicator for further clinical evaluation (foreseeing a potential risk of developing a vocal symptom because of smoking habits). A sample of 120 female nondysphonic smokers (aged 18-31) was recruited. Participants filled out the VHI and Voice Evaluation Form. VHI's cutoff point of total score was calculated at the value of 19.50 (sensitivity: 0.780, 1-specificity: 0.133). Specifically, the construct domain of functional was 7.50 (sensitivity: 0.900, 1-specificity: 0.217), for physical it was 8.50 (sensitivity: 0.867, 1-specificity: 0.483), and for emotional it was 7.50 (sensitivity: 0.833, 1-specificity: 0.200) through the use of receiver operating characteristic. Furthermore, VHI could be used as a monitoring tool for smokers and as a feedback for smoking cessation.
(Copyright © 2018 The Voice Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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