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  • Grandfather international : a cross-country comparison of an older people integrated assessment Portugal and Italy
    Publication . Bivar, Isabel; Casarani, A; Di Berardino, Federica; Ginocchio, Daniela; Nogueira, Dália; Reis, Elisabeth; Rosado, Maria Da Lapa; Schindler, A; Vieira, Ana Isabel
    Scientists theorize that aging likely results from a combination of many factors. Genes, lifestyle and disease can all affect the rate of ageing. Studies have indicated that people age at different rates and in different ways. Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability with multisystem loss of physiologic reserves and decreased response to stressors, predicting adverse health outcomes. The phenotype of frailty is characterized by: unintentional weight loss, self-reported exhaustion, weakness (low grip strength), slow walking speed and low physical activity. From our knowledge no studies were found that relate the frailty, hearing, the executive functions of language, speech rate and also the swallowing process. The research question is as follows: Is there any relation between frailty speech, language, hearing and swallow? This study is part of a project between Italy and Portugal involving professionals from various fields.
    2016-03-04Documento de conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Item reduction of the Voice Handicap Index based on the original version and on European translations
    Publication . Nawka, T; Verdonck-de Leeuw, IM; De Bodt, M; Guimarães, Isabel; Holmberg, EB; Rosen, CA; Schindler, A; Woisard, V; Whurr, R; Konerding, U
    Objective: Constructing an internationally applicable shortscale of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI). Methods: Subjects were 1,052 patients with 5 different types of voice disorder groups from Belgium, France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and the USA. Different 9- and 12-item subsets were selected from the 30 VHI items using (1) the first factor of an unrotated factor analysis (narrow range subsets) and (2) the first three factors after promax rotation (broad range subsets). Country-specific subsets were selected to test deviations from the international subsets. For all subsets, reliability was investigated using Cronbach’s alphas and correlations with the total VHI. Validity was investigated using regression on voice disorder groups. All analyses were performed for the total and for all country-specific subject samples. Results: Reliability was high for all item subsets. It was lower for the international compared to the countryspecific subsets and for the broad range compared to the narrow range subsets. Validity was best for the broad range subsets. Validity was better for the international than for the country-specific subsets. For all statistics the 12-item subsets were not essentially better than the 9-item subsets. Conclusion: The international broad range 9-item subset forms a scale which approximates well the total VHI.
    2009-02-10Artigo científico Acesso restrito Ver mais