Laryngeal Symptoms in Weightlifting Athletes.

Objectives: A preliminary investigation to explore (1) the influence of different exercise conditions on the prevalence and nature of reported sensory and auditory-perceptual voice symptoms, and (2) whether type of self-reported laryngeal behaviors used during weightlifting are related to report of laryngeal symptoms in weightlifting athletes.

Study Design: Prospective self-completion questionnaire design.

Methods: A total of 89 people (36 males, 53 females) who self-identified as individuals who regularly partook in exercise completed a self-report questionnaire administered using Qualtrics software.

Perceived Desirability of Vocal Fry Among Female Speech Communication Disorders Graduate Students.

Twenty-three female Speech Communication Disorders (SCD) graduate students rated the desirability of 25 adjectives used to describe perceived speaker's affect (including attitude, emotion, etc). A three-point weighted scale-desirable = 3, in-between = 2, and undesirable = 1-was used and a "desirability score" was calculated for each of these adjectives. Afterward, students were asked to use these adjectives to describe the perceived communication affect of female speakers with voices characterized by "vocal fry" as well as seven other vocal qualities (rough, breathy, strained, loud, high pitch, low pitch, and soft/weak).

Validation of a quality-of-life instrument for laryngopharyngeal reflux.

Objectives: To establish the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of a new, disease-specific assessment tool, the LPR-HRQL, which assesses patient-reported outcomes (PRO) with regard to health-related quality of life (HRQL) of patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR).

Design: A prospective, open-label, repeated-measures study.

Setting: Six centers in 4 states in the eastern United States.

The impact of laryngopharyngeal reflux on patient-reported quality of life.

Objectives/hypothesis: The objectives were to assess patient-reported outcomes, specifically, the health-related quality of life of patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux, and to compare those reported levels with the health-related quality of life of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease and a general population.

Study Design: Prospective study.

Methods: As part of a prospective study to validate a health-related quality of life instrument for laryngopharyngeal reflux, patient-reported data were collected before the initiation of therapy.

Correlation of pH probe-measured laryngopharyngeal reflux with symptoms and signs of reflux laryngitis.

Objectives/hypothesis: Laryngitis secondary to gastric acid reflux is a prevalent, yet incompletely understood, otolaryngological disorder. Further characterization of the relationship between symptoms and signs and reflux severity is needed.

Study Design: Prospective clinical trial.