The Influence of Breathing in Writing

The Influence of Mouth Breathing in the Discrimination of Sonority Perception in Writing

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02437877

Enrollment

200

Registered

2015-05-08

Start date

2008-08-31

Completion date

2010-01-31

Last updated

2015-05-08

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Conditions

Mouth Breathing

Keywords

Respiration, Learning, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Brief summary

Purpose: To examine whether nasal breathing influences the perception of sound causing trade between hard and soft consonants in the writing of children in school age and the incidence of trade.

Detailed description

To achieve the above goal explained, it was used: Methods: The sample was consisted of 200 children, 100 previously diagnosed with oronasal breath (51 females and 49 males) who participated in the study group and 100 nasal breathers (54 females and 46 males) which were the control group. 36 words were dictated as minimal pairs to be written. Then a story was submitted in sequence of six figures from which the subjects produced a text.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

7 Years to 13 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Mouth Breather/Nasal Breather * Literate

Exclusion criteria

* Hearing trouble * Speech trouble

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Comparison between production written and directed free nose breathers and mouth breathing children	up to 8 weeks

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results