Publications by authors named "Ana Paula Dassie Leite"
Objectives: To analyze the prevalence of pediatric voice disorders.
Study Design: Systematic review (SR) and meta-analysis.
Methods: The research question of this SR was "What is the prevalence of dysphonia in children?" An electronic search was performed using the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System online (Medline), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, EMBASE, Web of Science, and SCOPUS database.
Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed - CPPS and Acoustic Voice Quality Index - AVQI in healthy and altered children's voices: comparation, relationship with auditory-perceptual judgment and cut-off points.
Codas
May 2024
Purpose: To compare the acoustic measurements of Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed (CPPS) and Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) of children with normal and altered voices, to relationship with auditory-perceptual judgment (APJ) and to establish cut-off points.
Methods: Vocal recordings of the sustained vowel and number counting tasks of 185 children were selected from a database and submitted to acoustic analysis with extraction of CPPS and AVQI measurements, and to APJ. The APJ was performed individually for each task, classified as normal or altered, and for the tasks together defining whether the child would pass or fail in a situation of vocal screening.
Purpose: To evaluate the immediate effect of the inspiratory exercise with a booster and a respiratory exerciser on the voice of women without vocal complaints.
Methods: 25 women with no vocal complaints, between 18 and 34 years old, with a score of 1 on the Vocal Disorder Screening Index (ITDV) participated. Data collection was performed before and after performing the inspiratory exercise and consisted of recording the sustained vowel /a/, connected speech and maximum phonatory times (MPT) of vowels, fricative phonemes and counting numbers.
Purpose: To analyze responses of future teachers regarding the self-perception of vocal symptoms and knowledge about vocal health and vocal hygiene, relating them to sociodemographic and occupational variables and previous knowledge about voice.
Methods: Observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. A total of 264 undergraduate students participated and the Vocal Health and Hygiene Questionnaire (QSHV), Vocal Symptoms Scale (ESV) and a questionnaire with sociodemographic, occupational and vocal questions were applied.
Purpose: To compare the acoustic measurements of Cepstral Peak Prominence-Smoothed (CPPS) and Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) at pre- and post-voice therapy times.
Methods: This is a before and after intervention study, with retrospective data collection. Twenty-two subjects with a mean age of 49.
Purpose: To compare the vowel emission and number counting tasks in perceptual-auditory differentiation among children with and without laryngeal lesions.
Methods: Observational, analytical, and cross-sectional methods were used. Medical records of 44 children were selected from a database of an otorhinolaryngology service at a University Hospital and they were divided into groups: without laryngeal lesion (WOLL), and with laryngeal lesion (WLL), with 33 and 11 children.
Objective: To evaluate the vocal characteristics of children with short stature before and 12 months after growth hormone treatment.
Material And Methods: This analytical, observational cohort study included 23 children (age 5-11 years) diagnosed with short stature. Children in the short stature group (SSG) were matched (1:1) for age and sex with children with normal growth (normal stature group; NSG).
Objective: To compare the occurrence of vocal signs and symptoms before, during, and after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and analyze possible risk factors for the persistence of these signs and symptoms after disease resolution.
Methods: This was an observational, analytical, and cross-sectional study. The participants were 45 individuals of both sexes, with a mean age of 44 years, who were previously affected by COVID-19.
Objective: To evaluate the association between musculoskeletal pain, insomnia indices, and sleep quality with voice functioning among women.
Methods: Thirty women aged between 18 and 50 years old participated in two groups: dysphonic group (DG) - composed of 15 women diagnosed with behavioral dysphonia; and control group (CG) - composed of 15 vocally healthy women. All participants answered the Musculoskeletal Pain Investigation Questionnaire, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) questionnaires.
Objective: To analyze the vocal self-perception of individuals who wore face masks for essential activities and those who wore them for professional and essential activities during the coronavirus disease pandemic.
Materials And Methods: This was an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The study included 468 individuals who were stratified into two groups: the Working Group, comprising individuals who wore face masks for professional and essential activities during the pandemic; and the Essential Activities Group, with individuals who wore face masks only for essential activities during the pandemic.
Objectives: The present study aimed to characterize and to verify the relationship between shyness and self-assessment of vocal symptoms, public speaking, and aspects of daily communication.
Methods: This is an observational, analytical, and cross-sectional study. Two hundred and sixty-four male and female participants, with a mean age of 21 years and without any vocal disorder.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the self-perception of vocal symptoms and relationship factors in Brazilian academic teacher.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The study sample consisted of 235 Brazilian academic teachers, of whom 103 were men and 132 women, aged between 26 and 67 years, and employed at 39 institutions.
Purpose: To verify and compare the immediate effects of the voiced oral high-frequency oscillation (VOHFO) technique and the phonation into a silicone resonance tube in the elderly self-perception of vocal and laryngeal symptoms and in their voice quality.
Methods: 14 elderly women, over 60 years old, performed the VOHFO and phonation into a resonance tube technique (35cm in length and 9mm in diameter) with one-week interval between both to avoid carry-over effect. Initially, all participants answered questions regarding the frequency and intensity of their vocal/laryngeal symptoms.
Purpose: To characterize and to compare the perception of vocal fatigue in professors at the beginning and at the end of the school year.
Methods: Observational, analytical, prospective cohort study was carried out. A total of 115 professors participated with a mean age of 40 years old, 71 women and 44 men, employees of 28 higher education institutions in the south and southeast regions of Brazil.
Objective: To analyze the immediate effects of semioccluded vocal tract exercises on vocal quality and vocal self-assessment using resonance tube phonation in water in women without voice complaints, and to compare these results with those obtained using tongue trills and unvoiced fricative exercises.
Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study. The participants were 30 women aged 18-39 years and without vocal complaints.
Purpose: To evaluate the phonological characteristics of children with congenital hypothyroidism (CH).
Methods: Observational, analytical, cross-sectional, ambispective study including prepubertal children with CH (n=100; study group, SG) and controls without CH ( n=100; control group, CG). Assessments included a speech language pathology interview, the phonological evaluation of the ABFW Child Language Test, medical data, and neuropsychological tests in the first three years of life.
Objectives: To investigate musculoskeletal pain, vocal fatigue, and voice-related quality of life of tele-operators and compare these aspects with nonvoice-related professionals; and verify if there is a relationship between musculoskeletal pain and vocal fatigue and voice-related quality of life (V-RQOL) of tele-operators and nonvoice-related professionals.
Methods: Thirty-five tele-operators (SG) and 35 nonvoice-related professionals with no vocal complaints (control group) participated in the study. All of them answered investigating questionnaires of musculoskeletal pain, vocal fatigue index, and V-RQOL.
Objective: To analyze if there is an influence of the body position and emission number in the results of the maximum phonation times (MPT) of adults without vocal complaints.
Materials And Methods: This is an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. Sixty subjects participated: 30 men and 30 women without vocal complaints.
Purpose: To investigate the auditory perception of lay judges of the voice gender identification of women with Reinke's edema and to associate it with its severity and fundamental frequency (F0).
Methods: This is an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. A total of 46 lay judges analyzed 48 samples (counting numbers 1 to 10) of 24 women with Reinke's edema - the Reinke's Edema Group (REG) and 24 individuals, men and women, with other types of voice disorders - Control Group (CG).
Objective: To evaluate the vocal characteristics of a group of children with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) and the association of these characteristics with the children's clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic profiles.
Matherial And Methods: Observational, analytical, cross-sectional study including 200 prepubertal children, of whom 100 had CH (study group [SG]) and 100 had no CH (control group [CG]). The following parameters were evaluated: 1) history (identification, complaints, and interfering variables), 2) auditory-perceptual and acoustic evaluation (samples analyzed by a group of specialists, and objectively by a computer program), 3) self-assessment scores in the Pediatric Voice-Related Quality-of-Life (PVRQoL) survey, 4) laryngological evaluation (presence or absence of laryngeal lesions and data regarding glottal closure), and 5) medical records (CH etiology, age at treatment initiation, disease severity at diagnosis, treatment quality, and thyroid function tests on the day of the examination).
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the immediate effects of the semi-occluded vocal tract exercise (SOVTE) using the LaxVox® tube in singers.
Methods: Participants were 23 singers, classical singing students, aged 18 to 47 years (mean age = 27.2 years).
Purpose: To characterize the fundamental frequency and the frequency of the formants F1, F2, F3, and F4 from vocal emissions of amateur singers with metallic voice quality.
Methods: There were 60 amateur female singers aged between 18 and 60 years old; 30 women with metallic voice quality forming the study group (SG) and 30 women without such a vocal quality forming control group (CG). The sample was selected through voice screening confirmed by reviewers after reaching a consensus.
Objective: To obtain the vocal self-assessment rates of individuals without vocal complaints and relate them to gender, occupation, and age range.
Methods: This is an observational, analytical, and cross-sectional study. In this study, 601 individuals without vocal complaints, 241 men and 360 women, aged between 18 and 59 years (mean of 30.
Purpose: To obtain and analyze data from the social skills evaluation of dysphonic children.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional and prospective study. Participants were 38 children enrolled in a public school, ranging in age from 7 to 11 years.
Purpose: To understand the self-perception of healthy elderly regarding possible swallowing difficulties.
Methods: Participants were 104 seniors, 62 women and 42 men, ranging in age from 60 to 88 years (mean 70.6), who reported good general health, no history of degenerative diseases, neurological or any other diseases that could influence swallowing participated.