Health-related quality of life of preschool children who stutter
| Autor: | Caroline de Sonneville-Koedoot, Elly A. Stolk, Clazien A. M. Bouwmans-Frijters, Marie-Christine Franken, Hein Raat |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Public Health, Erasmus MC other, Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty Stuttering Health utility Cognitive Neuroscience Health Status Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Severity of Illness Index Language and Linguistics Proxy (climate) Child health law.invention Speech and Hearing Randomized controlled trial law Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Child Netherlands Health related quality of life Baseline data LPN and LVN humanities nervous system diseases Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Cohort Physical therapy Quality of Life Female medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Fluency Disorders, 42, 1-12. Elsevier Inc. |
| ISSN: | 0094-730X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jfludis.2014.09.001 |
| Popis: | Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare the health-related quality of life (HrQoL) of preschool children who stutter (CWS) and a reference population of children who do not stutter, and to evaluate the association between stuttering severity and HrQoL. Methods: Baseline data were used from 197 children participating in a multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial in the Netherlands. Information on stuttering severity and time since onset (TSO) of stuttering was obtained from the baseline evaluation by speech- and language therapists. Stuttering severity was measured using the SSI-3. HrQoL was assessed using proxy versions of two Child Health Questionnaires (ITQOL-97 and CHQ-PF28), the Health Utility Index 3 (HUI3) and the EuroQoL EQ-VAS (EQ-VAS). Results: While the outcomes on the EQ-VAS and the HUI3 showed that the HrQoL of CWS is slightly poorer than that of the Dutch reference population, results on the different dimensions of the CHQ-instruments did not reveal any difference in scores between stuttering children and reference groups. Within the group of CWS, two ITQOL-97 and four CHQ-PF28 scales showed statistically different scores for children in different SSI stuttering severity or TS0 categories. However, the effect sizes showed that these differences were so small that they could be considered negligible. Conclusion: The results of this study do not reveal a diminished FirQoL for preschool CWS. Future research should include a larger cohort of children with severe stuttering, study the longitudinal course of HrQoL and incorporate additional parameters such as the characteristics of the child and his environment. Educational objectives: The reader will be able to: (a) summarize the current evidence base on HrQoL in people who stutter; (b) describe the HrQoL of preschool CWS on different HrQoL measures; (c) describe the relationship between stuttering severity and HrQoL in preschool CWS. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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