Journal of Fluency Disorders最新文献

{"title":"","authors":"Ehud Yairi , Carol H. Seery","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105926","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 105926"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48143063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public attitudes toward stuttering in Malaysia","authors":"Shin Ying Chu ,&nbsp;Rachael Unicomb ,&nbsp;Jaehoon Lee ,&nbsp;Kai Shuo Cho ,&nbsp;Kenneth O. St. Louis ,&nbsp;Elisabeth Harrison ,&nbsp;Grace McConnell","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105942","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105942","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This study aims to: (a) measure public attitudes toward stuttering in Malaysia using the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attitudes-Stuttering [POSHA-S], (b) determine how reported attitudes and knowledge related to stuttering compare to existing data, and (c) determine whether there are differences between groups for identified variables.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A total of 250 adults (mean age = 29 years; range = 19–60 years) completed the POSHA–S in English. We compared this sample's attitudes toward stuttering to POSHA-S data from other global samples. General linear modeling examined differences in overall stuttering score, beliefs, and self reaction subscores for demographic variables such as age, gender, marital status, parenting, education, employment status, prior exposure to a person who stutters, multilingual, race, and religion.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The Malaysian participants’ overall stuttering score and the beliefs and self reactions subscores were all considerably lower (i.e., less positive) than the other samples around the world from the POSHA-S database median values. Being male, receiving a higher education, and knowing someone who stutters were linked to having more positive self reactions, but none of those factors was linked to positive or negative beliefs. Those who had previously been exposed to stuttering scored significantly higher than those who had not.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Malaysians may have less positive attitudes toward stuttering than Westerners. More needs to be done to make society more accepting of people who stutter. Future research should aim to find ways to educate and to raise public awareness about stuttering.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 105942"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10323671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"","authors":"Charley F. Adams","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 105940"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136967928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"","authors":"Joseph Hughes","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105941","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105941","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 105941"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43854612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Auditory feedback control in adults who stutter during metronome-paced speech II. Formant Perturbation","authors":"Saul A. Frankford ,&nbsp;Shanqing Cai ,&nbsp;Alfonso Nieto-Castañón ,&nbsp;Frank H. Guenther","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105928","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>Prior work has shown that Adults who stutter (AWS) have reduced and delayed responses to auditory feedback perturbations. This study aimed to determine whether external timing cues, which increase fluency, resolve auditory feedback processing disruptions.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Fifteen AWS and sixteen adults who do not stutter (ANS) read aloud a multisyllabic sentence either with natural stress and timing or with each syllable paced at the rate of a metronome. On random trials, an auditory feedback formant perturbation was applied, and formant responses were compared between groups and pacing conditions.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>During normally paced speech, ANS showed a significant compensatory response to the perturbation by the end of the perturbed vowel, while AWS did not. In the metronome-paced condition, which significantly reduced the disfluency rate, the opposite was true: AWS showed a significant response by the end of the vowel, while ANS did not.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>These findings indicate a potential link between the reduction in stuttering found during metronome-paced speech and changes in auditory motor integration in AWS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 105928"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10734917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stuttering, family history and counselling: A contemporary database","authors":"Tara Darmody ,&nbsp;Sue O’Brian ,&nbsp;Kris Rogers ,&nbsp;Mark Onslow ,&nbsp;Chris Jacobs ,&nbsp;Alison McEwen ,&nbsp;Robyn Lowe ,&nbsp;Ann Packman ,&nbsp;Ross Menzies","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p><span>Information about genetic influence is useful to when counselling parents or caregivers who have infants and children at risk for stuttering. Yet, the most comprehensive family aggregate database to inform that counselling is nearly four decades old (Andrews et al., 1983). Consequently, the present study was designed to provide a contemporary exploration of the relationship between stuttering and </span>family history.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Data were sourced from the Australian Stuttering Research Centre, comprising 739 participants who presented for assessment, treatment, or investigation of stuttering. Reported family history data were acquired from pedigrees collected during assessment. We sought to establish the relation of the following variables to family history of stuttering: incidence, proband sex, parent sex, stuttering severity, age, reported age of stuttering onset, and impact of stuttering. Data were analysed with chi-square tests for independence, logistic and linear regression models.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Results were broadly consistent with existing data, but the following findings were novel. Males and females who stutter have the same increased odds of having a father who stutters relative to a mother who stutters. Males had later stuttering onset than females, with genetic involvement in this effect. There was a greater impact of stuttering for females than males with a family history of stuttering.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>These findings have clinical applications. Speech-language pathologists may have infant or child clients known to them who are at risk of beginning to stutter. Information from the present study can be applied to counselling parents or caregivers of such children about stuttering and family history.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 105925"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40720099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations between stuttering avoidance and perceived patient-centeredness of health care interactions","authors":"Nathan V. Mallipeddi ,&nbsp;Sivan Aulov ,&nbsp;Hector R. Perez","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>To determine the relationships between (1) stuttering severity and (2) avoidance of speaking on patient centeredness of healthcare system interactions in a sample of persons who stutter.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p><span>This quantitative study utilized cross-sectional electronic surveys to assess the experiences of one-hundred-twenty-two adults who stutter in the United States with primary care physicians. The surveys evaluated: (1) self-reported stuttering severity and avoidance of speaking; and (2) self-reported patient-centeredness of healthcare interactions. We used multivariate </span>linear regression<span> to model relationships between independent and dependent variables, controlling for age, gender, patient-provider relationship duration, race/ethnicity, the presence of comorbid conditions, and household income.</span></p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Patient self-reported avoidance of speaking was significantly negatively associated with self-reported patient-centeredness of healthcare interactions. Patient self-reported stuttering severity was not significantly associated with patient-centeredness.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Our findings present evidence that internal non-observable behaviors<span> among persons who stutter, such as avoiding speaking, are associated with negative impact on healthcare interactions. Speech-language pathologists may want to discuss healthcare challenges with their clients and elicit communication barriers to inspire positive interactions within the healthcare system.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 105918"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40591695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of a short Japanese version of the Self-Stigma of Stuttering Scale (4S-J-16): Translation and evaluation of validity and reliability","authors":"Daichi Iimura ,&nbsp;Yuika Koyama ,&nbsp;Hiroko Kondo ,&nbsp;Akira Toyomura ,&nbsp;Michael Boyle","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This study aims to develop a short Japanese version of the Self-Stigma of Stuttering Scale (4S), which assesses the self-stigma of adults who stutter (AWS) in a self-completed form, and evaluate its psychometric properties and reliability and validity.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p><span>After translating the original 4S scale into Japanese (4S-J) through a forward-backward translation process, it was administered to 123 Japanese adults who stutter. A short version of the 4S-J was developed through factor analysis and eliminating items with low loadings to original factors. Reliability was verified by calculating internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Participants also completed the Japanese-translated version of the </span>Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale, General Self-Efficacy Scale, and Subjective Happiness Scale to verify construct validity. As a secondary analysis, our results regarding psychological properties of the short version of the 4S were then compared to those of studies from other countries.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Sixteen items were selected for the short version of the scale (4S-J-16), and confirmatory factor analysis verified the original structure of the 4S. We obtained good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Regarding construct validity, our results showed similar correlation with the other selected scales. The value of all scores on the stigma scale in the Japanese cohort was significantly higher than that in the foreign cohort.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Overall, the 4S-J-16 has good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity with a three-factor structure of self-stigma in Japanese AWS. The findings suggest that Japanese cultural background increases the stigma scores, thereby enabling us to briefly assess the psychosocial issues of AWS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 105917"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40398929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The good, the bad, and the ugly: Unpacking the pros and cons associated with change for adults who stutter","authors":"Hope Gerlach-Houck ,&nbsp;Naomi H. Rodgers","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>The purpose of the current study was to document the pros and cons that adults who stutter may consider when deciding to change how they live with stuttering.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 adults who stutter and 12 speech-language pathologists who specialize in stuttering therapy. Participants were asked to identify and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of making a change to how they live with stuttering. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to generate multilevel themes.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Meaningful units were extracted from interview transcripts<span> to develop 37 discrete pros and 15 discrete cons. The pros of change clustered into five organizing themes: enriching one’s social relationships<span><span>, feeling better in social interactions, developing a healthier sense of self, gaining </span>autonomy, and communicating easier. The cons of change clustered into three organizing themes: experiencing discomfort, expending resources, and recognizing that some things may not change.</span></span></p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>This study documented <em>why</em><span> adults who stutter may or may not seek change. Identifying the pros and cons of behavior change is an important step in understanding why some clients who stutter are ambivalent about, or resistant to, the therapeutic process.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 105924"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40597248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the caregiver burden scale for parents of children who stutter (CBS-PCWS)","authors":"Mahsa Mehdizadeh Behtash ,&nbsp;Banafshe Mansuri ,&nbsp;Masoomeh Salmani ,&nbsp;Seyed Abolfazl Tohidast ,&nbsp;Reyhaneh Zarjini ,&nbsp;Ronald Callaway Scherer","doi":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfludis.2022.105921","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p><span><span>Caring for a child who stutters can impose excessive pressure on parents. Caregiver burden affects many aspects of parents' lives. Paying attention to parents in the </span>treatment of children who stutter (CWS) is important because parents play a key role in the treatment of CWS. The aim of the study was to develop the Caregiver Burden Scale for Parents of Children Who Stutter (CBS-PCWS) and investigate the </span>psychometric properties of the CBS-PCWS.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p><span>The CBS-PCWS was developed using interviews with 15 parents of CWS and a literature review. The content validity, </span>face validity<span>, construct validity using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and reliability of the CBS-PCWS were investigated. The content validity was evaluated using 10 experts’ opinions. Face validity was determined using interviews with 10 parents of CWS. The reliability of the CBS-PCWS was evaluated through internal consistency and test-retest reliability.</span></p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The scale development resulted in the creation of 137 items. During an expert panel with the presence of the research team, 51 similar items were eliminated. During the qualitative content validity stage, nine items were added to the initial scale. After determining the content and face validity, the number of CBS-PCWS items was reduced to 52 items. In the construct validity stage using EFA with responses from 364 parents, eight items of the CBS-PCWS were removed due to low factor loadings. The results of the EFA indicated that the CBS-PCWS contained five factors: psychological and emotional, personal and physical, support for caregiving, culpability, and socio-communicative. The Cronbach's alpha<span> values of the scale domains were in the 0.78–0.94 range. In addition, the ICC test-retest coefficient for the total score of the CBS-PCWS was 0.93 and for its domains was in 0.91–0.99 range.</span></p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The CBS-PCWS has 44 items with five domains and is a valid and reliable scale that can be used for clinical or research purposes. More studies are required to evaluate further psychometric properties of the CBS-PCWS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Fluency Disorders","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 105921"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40673755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}