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Abstract
Voice production may be affected by the emotional and psychological state of the individual. Each person’s voice is individual to them in terms of quality, pitch, volume and tone (Aronson, 1990).Voice is used to reflect an individual’s emotions, mood and self-image, while listeners draw inferences about a person from the way they sound (Mathieson, 2001).
The aim of this work was to assess the psychological correlates of patients with non-organic voice disorders and minimal associated pathological lesions in order to proper management.
This study included 200 individuals, age ranging from 11 years to 70 years. The (study group) included 100 patients with change of voice. The study group were compared to another group (control group) which included 100 individuals with no change of voice. The individuals in the two groups were matched in their age and sex distribution as much as possible.
The study group (G1):
This group included 100 patients suffering from change of voice.
It divided into 2 subgroups:
group A: it included 50 patients who diagnosed as minimal associated pathological lesions (MAPLs) of the vocal folds.
group B: it included 50 patients who diagnosed a non-organic voice disorders.
The control group (GII):
This group included 50 individuals not suffering from change of voice, they were selected randomly from outpatient clinic of Internal medicine, Minia university hospital.
Each individual of both groups was subjected to the following protocols of assessment and all the patients and individuals of the control group.
[A]- The full voice evaluation protocol in the Phoniatric Unit, El-Minia University Hospital (Kotby, 1995).
[B]- The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) ((El-Malki et al., 2010)
[C] - Psychiatric evaluation:
All individuals in the study were subjected to
1-Eyseneck personality Questionnaire (EPQ) (Abdel-khalek and Eysenck, 1983)
2- Symptom Chick List-90 R (SCL-90 R) Questionnaire (El-Behairy, 1984)
3-Toronto Alexithymia-20 scale (TAS-20) (Askar et al., 1993).