PMID- 26024695
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160331
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1434-4726 (Electronic)
IS  - 0937-4477 (Linking)
VI  - 272
IP  - 10
DP  - 2015 Oct
TI  - The Norwegian Voice Handicap Index (VHI-N) patient scores are dependent on 
      voice-related disease group.
PG  - 2897-905
LID - 10.1007/s00405-015-3659-9 [doi]
AB  - 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.
FAU - Karlsen, Tom
AU  - Karlsen T
AD  - Department of Speech and Language, Statped Vest, Bedriftssenter, PO Box 6039, 
      5892, Bergen, Norway, tom.karlsen@statped.no.
FAU - Heimdal, John-Helge
AU  - Heimdal JH
FAU - Grieg, Anne Rita Hella
AU  - Grieg AR
FAU - Aarstad, Hans Jorgen
AU  - Aarstad HJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
DEP - 20150530
PL  - Germany
TA  - Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol
JT  - European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European 
      Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the 
      German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
JID - 9002937
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - *Disability Evaluation
MH  - Disabled Persons
MH  - Dysphonia/diagnosis/physiopathology/*rehabilitation
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Norway
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
MH  - *Voice Quality
EDAT- 2015/05/31 06:00
MHDA- 2016/04/01 06:00
CRDT- 2015/05/31 06:00
PHST- 2015/03/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/05/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/05/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/05/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/04/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s00405-015-3659-9 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2015 Oct;272(10):2897-905. doi: 
      10.1007/s00405-015-3659-9. Epub 2015 May 30.