Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia最新文献

{"title":"Impact of call center work in subjective voice symptoms and complaints--an analytic study.","authors":"Leila Rechenberg,&nbsp;Bárbara Niegia Garcia de Goulart,&nbsp;Renato Roithmann","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To estimate the prevalence of vocal symptoms, occupational risk factors, associated symptoms and their impact on the professional activity of the telemarketers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-section analytical study with 124 telemarketers and 109 administrative workers (control group) selected from a random sample stratified by gender. The subjects answered an anonymous self-administered questionnaire involving issues related to the presence of vocal symptoms, potential risk factors for dysphonia, and vocal impact of symptoms in professional activity. The presence of one or more voice symptoms that occurred daily or weekly was considered positive for the presence of vocal symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of vocal symptoms was found in 33% of telemarketers and in 21% of the control group, indicating an association between vocal symptoms and the activity of the telemarketer. When adjusted for confounders, this association remained in the sense of risk. In telemarketers, the sensation of dry air, ambient noise, and lack of vocal rest were the most frequently reported complaints reported by those presenting vocal symptoms. Almost 70% of telemarketers with vocal symptoms reported that these symptoms interfere with their professional activity. The rate of absenteeism by vocal symptoms in this group was 29%.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Vocal symptoms are common in most telemarketers when compared to their peer controls, and significantly affect their job performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"301-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30375321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psycholinguistic and scholastic abilities in children with myelomeningocele.","authors":"Dionísia Aparecida Cusin Lamônica,&nbsp;Luciana Paula Maximino,&nbsp;Greyce Kelly da Silva,&nbsp;Adriano Yacubian-Fernandes,&nbsp;Patrícia Abreu Pinheiro Crenitte","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To describe the performance of individuals with myelomeningocele regarding psycholinguistic and scholastic abilities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were five individuals with myelomeningocele and lumbar sacral abnormalities, and chronological age between 9 years and 10 months and 11 years and 7 months (Group 1 - G1); five subjects with typical development (Group 2 - G2), matched to G1 for age, gender, and educational level. The evaluation consisted of interview with parents/caregivers, and application of the following tests: Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA); School Performance Test; Speed Reading Test; and Rapid Automatized Naming Test.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The between-groups comparison in the ITPA subtests showed that the maximum values obtained by G1 corresponded approximately to the minimum values obtained by G2, confirming the difference between the groups, except for the auditory closure subtest. In the Scholastic Performance Test, significant alterations were observed on the performance of G1 in all tasks. In the Speed Reading and Rapid Automatized Naming tests, individuals in G1 also presented considerable deficits, making more mistakes and spending more time than G2 to perform the same tasks.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Individuals with myelomeningocele present deficits in psycholinguistic abilities, school performance, reading speed, and rapid automatized naming.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"328-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30375325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Axial force of the tongue in different age groups.","authors":"Andréa Rodrigues Motta,&nbsp;Cibele Comini César,&nbsp;Silvana Bommarito,&nbsp;Brasília Maria Chiari","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000300004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To analyze the maximum axial force, the mean axial force, the amount of energy accumulated by the tongue, and the time taken to reach the maximum axial force, in different age ranges.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The records of 92 individuals - students, staff and visitors at an university -, 29 (32.6%) men and 63 (67.4%) women, with ages between 14 and 53 years old, were analyzed. Subjects were divided into four age groups: 14 to 18 years, 19 to 23 years, 24 to 28 years, and 29 to 53 years. Each subject underwent clinical and instrumental assessment of the tongue. Instrumental assessment used FORLING. Data were statistically analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Regarding the maximum force, the mean force and the tongue's accumulated energy, no differences were observed between groups. Regarding the time taken to reach the maximum force, the greatest values were obtained at the age range from 14 to 18 years (4.5 s), and the shortest values, at the age range from 19 to 23 years (3.1 s), with significant difference between the groups (p=0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Only the time taken to reach the tongue's maximum force is influenced by age range, indicating that teenagers are not able to reach the maximum lingual force as fast as young adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"201-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30218977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Functional aspects of communication: a longitudinal study of the first three years of life.","authors":"Cibelle Albuquerque de la Higuera Amato,&nbsp;Fernanda Dreux Miranda Fernandes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this multiple case-study is to present issues to the analysis and discussion of communicative development since the pre-verbal period. The case presentation starts with the description of the analyzed sample followed by the synthesis of data regarding the pragmatic aspects of six subjects, from the 1st to the 36th month of life. Data regarding the number of communicative acts expressed per minute, occupation of the communicative space, proportion of use of the communicative means and the communication's interaction proportion are included. The individualized analysis of the number of communicative acts produced per minute in each sample shows an increasing tendency that is almost constant, but also frequent individual variations. The occupation of the communicative space has shown larger and more constant variations that, nevertheless, continue to evidence evolution. The longitudinal follow-up allowed the observation of the proportion of the use of the verbal communicative mean and its essential role in the child's communication from the 21st month on. Since the 30th month the verbal mean is the more frequent but the gestural mean is still responsible for an important part of the communication initiated by the child. In what refer to the communication's interactivity, data show that the infant seek the interactivity since birth and that with age improve the quality and quantity of his/her communication's abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"277-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30074837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Posturography with virtual reality stimulations in normal young adults with no balance complaints.","authors":"Rosângela Ghiringhelli,&nbsp;Cristina Freitas Ganança","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000300013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To analyze the findings of posturography with virtual reality stimuli carried out in young healthy adults with no otoneurological complaints, based on the parameters center of pressure, limit of stability and sway speed for different visual stimuli, and regarding differences between female and male genders.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 50 healthy individuals of both genders (50% female and 50% male) with ages ranging from 18 to 25 years (mean age 21.30 years), with no complaints regarding body balance, and with vestibular outcomes assessed through digital vectonistagmography within normal limits. Posturography was composed of 11 visual stimuli and determined the limit of stability area (LOS), the ellipse area, and the sway speed in ten sensorial conditions. Results were calculated for the studied age range and analyzed according to the values for each stimulus, with the aim to obtain normality parameters.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The average values obtained in posturography regarding limit of stability, ellipse area and sway speed for stimuli with viso-vestibular interaction presented significant differences between genders, and, in all cases, women obtained lower values than men.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings of posturography with virtual reality stimuli in healthy young adults evidence that the parameters center of pressure, limit of stability and sway speed present differences between genders and, therefore, must be considered separately.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"264-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30219953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professional theatre actors: environmental and socio-occupational use of voice.","authors":"Bárbara Niegia Garcia de Goulart,&nbsp;Juliana Richinitti Vilanova","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000300014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To investigate the occurrence of vocal complaints and symptoms among professional theatre actors, and its relationship with environmental aspects of this professional activity and with the history of specialized intervention.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional study with 48 professional actors who answered a questionnaire regarding vocal and extra-vocal complaints, as well as environmental aspects, habits and demands related to their professional activity in the theatre. A specific previously structured protocol (PROTEA) was used for this purpose.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Previous history of acting vocal training was reported by 40 (83.3%) subjects. The most used resources were vocal warming, hydrating therapy, and alternative methods. Vocal difficulties in day-to-day demands were reported by 14 (35.0%) subjects, and eight (16.7%) of them noticed these difficulties since the beginning of their career. During performances, 14 (29.2%) reported difficulties coordinating breathing and speaking. All actors interviewed consider vocal health important for theatre acting. Most actors denied difficulties regarding vocal projection, breathing and/or articulation of words in scene. However, the Italian stage seems to be more related to difficulties coordinating breathing and speaking than the arena theater (p=0.00).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In spite of professional actors who have a history of training and orientation regarding the use of professional voice, a significant portion of them have complaints related to professional voice use, especially associated to the environment conditions at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"271-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30074836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology. Editorial.","authors":"Fernanda Dreux","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30218974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Proposal for facial type determination based on anthropometry.","authors":"Rossana Ribeiro Ramires,&nbsp;Léslie Piccolotto Ferreira,&nbsp;Irene Queiroz Marchesan,&nbsp;Débora Martins Cattoni,&nbsp;Marta Assumpção de Andrada E Silva","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000300003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To describe orofacial indexes and proportions in adults, according to facial type and gender, and to verify the possibility to establish a way of classifying face based on anthropometry.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 105 leukoderm adults, 34 male (32.4%) and 71 female (67.6%), with ages between 20 and 40 years old, patients in a private orthodontic clinic in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The findings from the cephalometric analysis contained in their orthodontic records were used for determination of facial type. Subjects were divided according to gender and facial type, and were submitted to anthropometric facial measures obtained directly through a caliper rule. These measures were compared to six variables: facial index, lower face index, upper face index, chin-face height proportion, chin height proportion, and mandibular height proportion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The average values obtained by the subjects divided into genders and facial types that presented significant differences were: facial index, lower face index, upper face index, and mandibular height proportion for males, and mandibular height proportion, for females. To predict facial types, the following parameters were considered significant: facial index, upper face index and mandibular height proportion for the dolichofacial type, for males; and mandibular height proportion for the dolichofacial and lower face index for the brachyfacial type, for females.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Some indexes and orofacial proportions present variations according to facial types and genders. In general, the anthropometric variables in this study are not good predictors to determine facial types.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"195-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30218976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrative and orthographic writing abilities in Elementary School students: characteristics and correlations.","authors":"Juliana Faleiros Paolucci Bigarelli,&nbsp;Clara Regina Brandão de Ávila","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000300009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To characterize, according to the school grade and the type of school (private or public), the performance on orthographic and narrative text production in the writing of Elementary School students with good academic performance, and to investigate the relationships between these variables.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 160 children with ages between 8 and 12 years, enrolled in 4th to 7th grades Elementary School. Their written production was assessed using words and pseudowords dictation, and autonomous writing of a narrative text.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Public school students had a higher number of errors in the words and pseudowords dictation, improving with education level. The occurrence of complete and incomplete utterances was similar in both public and private schools. However, 4th graders presented more incomplete statements than the other students. A higher number of overall microstructure and macrostructure productions occurred among private school students. The essential macrostructures were most frequently found in the later school grades. The higher the total number of words in the autonomous written production, the higher the occurrence of linguistic variables and the better the narrative competence. There was a weak negative correlation between the number of wrong words and the total of events in text production. Positive and negative correlations (from weak to good) were observed between different orthographic, linguistic and narrative production variables in both private and public schools.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Private school students present better orthographic and narrative performance than public school students. Schooling progression influences the performance in tasks of words' writing and text production, and the orthographic abilities influence the quality of textual production. Different writing abilities, such as orthographic performance and use of linguistic elements and narrative structures, are mutually influenced in writing production.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"237-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30219949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The collective construction of a guide for caregivers of bedridden patients: experience report.","authors":"Vera Lucia Ferreira Mendes,&nbsp;Daniela Regina Molini-Avejonas,&nbsp;Allyne Ribeiro,&nbsp;Luiz Augusto de Paula Souza","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000300016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a qualitative descriptive-exploratory study that adopts as data gathering method the participant observation of healthcare processes carried out by caregivers of bedridden patients from the coverage area of a Family Health Team of a Basic Health Unit (BHU) in São Paulo (SP), Brazil. The aim of this study was to report the construction of a guide for caregivers of bedridden patients and/or patients confined to the home. This guide was prepared based in a partnership among the Family Healthcare (FHT) and the speech-language pathologists and audiologists teams, and the caregivers of patients from the BHU. The guide was motivated by the construction of a common knowledge, with the aim to contribute with the creation of collaborative networks, apt to be places of discussion and exchange of knowledge, in order to optimize the ability of caregivers to early identify situations that require intervention. The networks also contributed to the valorization of caregivers' role; their knowledge on how to perform in daily living activities; overcoming of limitations; demonstration of actions aimed at the physical and mental well-being of the sick person; expansion of the capacity of ownership of processes of illnesses, autonomy and co-responsibility in healthcare. The guide was printed and delivered to FHT members, healthcare professionals and the community. The feedback was positive and, therefore, the guide was successful for the proposed objective.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 3","pages":"281-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000300016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30074838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}