Voice disorders
Conditions
Interventions
The elderly will be allocated into three groups:
1. Group I (GI): 30 elderly patients with a diagnosis of presbylarynx will receive 12 sessions of 45 minutes of vocal therapy. In this group, particip
Behavioural
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Sponsors
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo
Eligibility
Age
60 Years to 90 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Individuals of both sexes, with 60 years of age or older, diagnosed with presbylarynx, with no previous history of vocal fold lesions or who have undergone laryngeal fioricrosurgery and / or who have a previous diagnosis of pneumopathy, heart disease or neurological disease, or other laryngeal changes associated with presbylarynx.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Individuals who have undergone previous speech therapy, do not have adherence to the proposed speech-language therapy; smokers, singers, who have cognitive and neurological alterations.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To verify the effectiveness of a phonoaudiological therapy program for presbyphonia by means of acoustic analysis of the vocal measurements, voice recordings of the individuals of both groups (GI, GII and GC) throughout the research, through the software Real Time Pitch of the hardware KayPentax® Computerized Speech Lab / Model 6103 from KayPentax® and MultiDimensional Voice Program (MDVP) from KayPentax® Computerized Speech Lab / Model 6103 and perceptual-auditory evaluation in-evaluators and inter-evaluator of vocal quality.;To verify the effectiveness of a phonoaudiological therapy program for presbyphonia through aerodynamic phonatory measurements of individuals of both groups (GI, GII and GC) throughout the research, through the Spin Aerodynamic System (SAF), Model 6600 (KayPentax®).;To verify the effectiveness of a phonoaudiological therapy program for presbyphonia by analyzing the responses of individuals from both groups (GI, GII and GC) throughout the research, through the application of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) designed by Jacobson et al. (1997), translated and validated in Portuguese as Vocal Disadvantage Index (IDV) by Behlau et al. (2011). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Comparing and verifying differences in vocal quality between GI individuals and GII individuals, through the acoustic analysis of vocal measures, voice recordings of individuals, through the MultiDimensional Voice Program (MDVP) of Computerized Speech Lab / Model 6103 software. KayPentax®. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactLílian Neto Aguiar-Ricz
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo
Outcome results
None listed