The Association between Depression Severity, Prosody, and Voice Acoustic Features in Women with Depression.

Autor: Seifpanahi MS; Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Autism Spectrum Disorders Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran., Ghaemi T; Department of Linguistic, The University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany., Ghaleiha A; Department of Psychiatry, Research Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substance Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran., Sobhani-Rad D; Department of Speech Therapy, School of Paramedical Science, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran., Zarabian MK; Research Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substance Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: TheScientificWorldJournal [ScientificWorldJournal] 2023 Dec 05; Vol. 2023, pp. 9928446. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 05 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1155/2023/9928446
Abstrakt: The aim was to define the association between the severity of depression, prosody, and voice acoustic features in women suffering from depression and its comparisons with nondepressed people. Prosody and acoustic features in 30 women with major depression hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and 30 healthy women were investigated in a cross-sectional study. To define the severity of depression, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS-D) was applied. Acoustic parameters such as jitter, shimmer, cepstral peak prominence (CPP), standard deviation of fundamental frequency (SD F 0), harmonic-to-noise ratio, and F 0 and also some speech prosodic features including the speed of speech, switching pause duration means, and durations of produced sentences with different modals were measured quantitatively. Also, six raters judged the patient's prosody qualitatively. SPSS V.28 was used for all statistical analyses ( p < 0.05). There was a significant correlation between HRS-D with jitter, SD F 0, speed of speech, and switching pause means ( p ≤ 0.05). The means of CPP and duration of producing emotional sentences differed between the depression and control groups. The HRS-D scores were significantly correlated with switching pauses in patients (Pearson coefficient = 0.47, p =0.05). The results of the perceptual evaluation of prosody judged by six raters showed an 85% correlation between them ( p ≤ 0.001). Some acoustic and prosodic parameters are different between healthy women and those with depression disorder (e.g., CPP and duration of emotional sentences) and may also have an association with the severity of depression (e.g., jitter, SD F 0, speed of speech, and switching pause means) in women with depression disorder. It was indicated that the best sentence modal to assess prosody in patients with depression would be exclamatory ones compared to declarative and interrogative sentences.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
(Copyright © 2023 Mohammad-Sadegh Seifpanahi et al.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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