Adult Voice Screening

Abstract

Voice screening by means of recordings was conducted on 428 adults going through a series of tests at a multiphasic health-screening unit. Judgments of voice quality made by a trained listener were compared with judgments made by the participant. Laryngeal examinations were obtained on selected cases. Between 5 and 10% had some type of laryngeal or nasopharyngeal pathology that produced a deviant voice quality, indicating that a health-screening program which includes voice screening can identify a significant segment of the affected adult population early enough to prevent the development of more serious laryngeal lesions.

Prevalence of Otolaryngologic Diseases in South Korea: Data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2008

“…In our study, the prevalence of subjective dysphonia was 6.60%, which was similar to a recent large-scale study (46), although the reported estimates varied widely between 0.65% and 30% (40, 45, 47, 48). Subjective dysphonia increases with age and peaks in individuals in their sixties in our study, but other researchers have reported that the peak occurred at middle age (41, 46).…”

“…To our knowledge, the present investigation is the largest epidemiologic study on the prevalence of dysphonia in a general population. Although there are some reports that have investigated the prevalence of laryngeal diseases in a general population (45, 46), none of these studies employed laryngoscopy as a primary evaluation tool.…”

Prevalence of Laryngeal Disease in South Korea: Data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2008 to 2011

“…To our knowledge, this survey is the largest epidemiologic study on the prevalence of laryngeal disease in a general population. Although there are some other reports that have also investigated the prevalence of laryngeal diseases,3,4 none of these studies utilized laryngoscopy as a primary evaluation tool and employed trained otolaryngologists.…”

Voice Disorders in the General Greek Population and in Patients With Laryngopharyngeal Reflux. Prevalence and Risk Factors

“…Epidemiological studies, showing the actual size of the problem, are relatively rare, and the reported prevalence of voice disorders in the existing small number of studies shows substantial variability, ranging from 0.65% to 41.6%. [3][4][5][6] This variability in the reported prevalence estimates is mainly because of the different methodological approach selected by each study to define voice disorders, in addition to the differences in sample populations and sizes. The prevalence of voice disorders has been studied more extensively in certain professions, such as teachers, where the prevalence of voice disorders has been found to vary from 7% to 80%, depending on the studied groups, response rate, and the way the question was set.…”