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KMID : 1022420150070020047
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2015 Volume.7 No. 2 p.47 ~ p.54
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A Study of depression symptom in patients with voice disorders
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Kang Young-Ae
Koo Bon-Seok
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Abstract
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The objectives of this study are to research the frequency of depression symptom in patients with voice disorders and to investigate parameters associated with depression from voice evaluation. A hundred ninety six patients(106 males and 90 females) who had been diagnosed with voice disorders first in their lifetime were selected. All the patients were examined by laryngeal stroboscopy. For depression and voice study, personal interview, acoustic and aerodynamic analysis, voice handicap index(VHI), reflux symptom index(RSI), and beck depression index(BDI) were done respectively. Mild to severe BDI were seen in 26.2%(52 patients) of the whole patients. A BDI mean score of female patients was 8.8±7.5 which was higher than that of male patients(5.6±6.6), the difference observed being statistically significant(p<0.001). In the acoustic analysis, the score of sent_duration parameter was increasing in the patients with depression, which was significantly higher than the score of the patients without depression(p<0.05). In the addition, the scores of VHI and RSI were higher in the patients with depression(p<0.001). Our findings suggest that the prevalence of depression in patients with voice disorders is related to female, speaking velocity, and self-questionnaire. This result can be used for psychologically based approach to therapy.
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KEYWORD
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beck depression index, objective voice analysis, voice handicap index, reflux symptom index
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