Sintomas vocais de futuros profissionais da voz

Abstract

Conflict of interest: non-existentThus, there has been an increase on the number of research works that deal with the quality of life of individuals in relation to overall health and audiology aspects 1,2,[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Referente à réplica à carta ao editor sobre a forma de aplicação e cálculos do instrumento Escala de Sintomas Vocais (ESV)

“…In our article 1 , there are: analysis of age and amount of vocal symptoms reported by the future voice professionals, averaging 11.38 problems of a total possibility of 30; frequency of occurrence of symptoms, most often symptoms "you cough or clear your throat" and "you have trouble speaking in noisy places" and statistically significant difference; occurrence of symptoms between the sexes without significant difference between men and women; comparing amount of symptoms with gender, body mass index (BMI) and age group, without significant differences; correlating the amount of symptoms with age and BMI, without significant differences; comparison of the subscales of the VoiSS between men and women, without significant differences; crossing the subscales of VoiSS and age groups, with no significant differences; Comparison of subscales of VoiSS and BMI of individuals, with no significant differences.…”

“…Without access to a paper published in the future, we consider that the statistical analysis of the data and their interpretation were carried out in a logical and acceptable way in the absence of other parameters and not consider it as "a wrong interpretation of the instrument" and, yes, viable alternatives interpretation of the data shown in Tables 1-5 of our study 1 .…”

“…The VoiSS had just published its cultural equivalence for Brazilian Portuguese 18 at the time of closing and approval of our article, which occurred in mid-2013, although much later published 1 , but still it was not published its validation and cut-off point 15 . Thus, contrary to the claims of colleagues, we applied the VOISS exactly as recommended by the available literature 16,18 , from 30 items, with responses by frequency of occurrence for each item, its partial and total scores obtained by simple addition, and explained in Tables 6, 7 and 8 and this form of application did not change with subsequent publications 15,19 .…”

“…The VoiSS 15 , in the same way that the original instrument VoiSS 16 , is a self-assessment instrument of voice symptoms and the impact of a voice problem, consisting of 30 items, with partial and overall scores obtained by simple summation and not average. In that article 1 , the authors incorrectly used the VoiSS 15 as a list of symptoms, the individual may have from zero to 30 voice symptoms, giving a wrong interpretation of the instrument and its calculation method. The VoiSS 15 is not a vocal list of problems, from which is obtained an average value of quantity of vocal problems, expected frequency, positive and negative aspects, as calculated and shown in Tables 1 to 5 of the study.…”

Referente a: Escala de Sintomas Vocais - ESV: forma de aplicação e cálculos do instrumento

“…Dear Scientific Editor of Revista CEFAC Prof. Dr. Simone Aparecida Capellini, We are writing this letter to clarify some important aspects regarding the article published in Revista CEFAC, titled "Vocal symptoms of future professional voice users" 1 .…”