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There is no standardized protocol for the clinical evaluation of orofacial components and functions in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. The aim of this study was to examine the validity, reliability, and psychometric properties of the Expanded Protocol of Orofacial Myofunctional Evaluation with Scores (OMES-expanded) in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea. Patients with obstructive sleep apnea and control subjects were evaluated, and the validity of OMES-expanded was tested by construct validity (i.e. the ability to discriminate orofacial status between apneic and control subjects) and criterion validity (i.e. correlation between OMES-expanded and a reference instrument). Construct validity was adequate; the apneic group showed significantly worse orofacial status than did control subjects. Criterion validity of OMES-expanded was good, as was its reliability. The OMES-expanded is valid and reliable for evaluating orofacial myofunctional disorders of patients with obstructive sleep apnea, with adequate psychometric properties. It may be useful to plan a therapeutic strategy and to determine whether the effects of therapy are related to improved muscle and orofacial functions.

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RESUMO Objetivo Adaptar e validar conteúdo e aparência do Protocolo de Avaliação Miofuncional Orofacial com Escores Expandido (AMIOFE-E) para lactentes de 6 a 24 meses de idade. Método Estudo de validação. Os parâmetros foram baseados em literatura sobre desenvolvimento motor orofacial, experiência dos autores e painel de 10 especialistas. Os dados foram analisados por estatística descritiva, Índice de Validade de Conteúdo e concordância entre especialistas. Resultados O protocolo foi organizado em blocos funcionais após manutenção, exclusão, modificação e acréscimo de itens, adaptando-se à faixa etária. Obteve-se alto nível de concordância em 90% dos itens. Na versão final foram acrescidos: histórico de alimentação e hábitos parafuncionais orofaciais, mobilidade facial, dentição, modo oral de respiração, deglutição de pastoso e detalhamentos específicos para a faixa etária. Acrescentou-se um manual operacional e uma tabela para registro de escores. Conclusão O Protocolo AMIOFE-E Lactentes e respectivo manual operacional foram validados quanto ao conteúdo e aparência, e poderá contribuir no diagnóstico miofuncional orofacial na faixa etária de 6 a 24 meses de idade.

The Computerized AMIOFE protocol is valid and had its usability/functionality confirmed.

The Italian version of the OMES-protocol was developed, translated, and cross-culturally adapted. Normal values for young and adult Italian subjects are presented.

In the literature, there is only one instrument validated for the clinical evaluation of the orofacial myofunctional condition of children, the Orofacial Myofunctional Evaluation Protocol with Scores (OMES) (Felício and Ferreira, 2008). In spite of recognized importance of the perceptible evaluation this present some limitations because your subjectivity, and, the increase of precision in the results is provided with numerical scales with more information. The numerical scales and the items number evaluations for OMES protocol were extended, with aim for possibility the detection and note of difference smalls in the characteristics physics and in the orofacial behaviors entre-subjects and variation intra-subject in the time. This study had with objective describe the OMES protocol extended (OMES-E), analyze the validity, the reliability and the correlation, as well as investigate the values of sensitivity, of specificity and predictive values of the OMES-E. The sample for the study compounded of images and videos of 50 children, 25 boys (mean age=8.4 years, standard deviation=1.8) and 25 girls (mean age=8.2 years, standard deviation=1.7). Three speech therapists (E1, E2 and E3) properly calibrated in orofacial myofuncional evaluation were choosed after analysis of ability of the examiners in to use the OMES protocol. To analysis of criterion validity of OMES-E protocol the children were evaluated individually for the analysis of images recorded on videocassette for the protocols OMES and OMES-E. To complement the criterion validity was carried out the test of the correlations and of the reability of the applications and/or of the interpretation of the OMES-E. Statistical analysis was performed using the Statistics software based on the split-half reliability method, the level of significance was set at 0.05, Spearman correlation coefficient, the coefficient Kappa weighted linear (Kw'), the sensitivity (S), specificity (E), predictive values (VP+ e VP-) and the prevalence (P) were also calculated. Was statistically significant correlation between the evaluations with the OMES and OMES-E protocols, the values, in agreement with the examiners, were E1 (r=0.81, p<0.01), E2 (r=0.79, p<0.01) and E3 (r=0.94, p<0.01). The reliability between protocols were to E1 0.89, to E2 0.88, and to E3 0.97. The correlations and reliability values between the testretest with the OMES-E were: E1 (r=0,86, 0,93), E2 (r=0.75, 0.86) e E3 (r=0.80, 0.89). The correlations and reliability values between examiners with the OMES-E were: E1 x E2 (r=0.74, 0.84), E1 x E3 (r=0.70, 0.83), all with p<0.01. The Kw' strength of agreement to the OMES-E protocol apply, for the analyses test-retest and to analyses between examiners, predominant were "moderate" and "good. To the OMES-E protocol were found mean values of 0.91 for the S, of 0.77 for the E, of 0.87 for the VP+ and of 0.85 for the VP-. The prevalence mean of myofuncional disorder was 0.58. The OMES-E protocol proved to be a valid and reliable instrument for orofacial myofuncional evaluation a...

Speech performance, measured by the PCC, and speech rate increased according to age, resulting in significant differences between the three age groups. The increase of the PCC indexes and of speech rate were directly proportional.