Open AccessEffect of inhalant allergies on voice quality in women
Author(s) -
Ana Bonetti,
Mateja Visković
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja/hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1848-7734
pISSN - 1331-3010
DOI - 10.31299/hrri.54.1.1
Subject(s) - allergy , intoxicative inhalant , audiology , medicine , perception , psychology , toxicology , immunology , biology , neuroscience
Reports of negative influence of inhalant allergies on voice quality in the world are increasingly frequent. In order to evaluate this impact using objective and subjective methods, women with allergies (n = 30) and women without allergies (n= 30) underwent multidimensional assessment consisting of perceptual assessment, Voice Handicap Index – HR (Bonetti and Bonetti, 2013) and acoustic analysis. The results indicate a negative effect of allergies on voice quality, which is measurable as significantly worse VHI-HR results and worse harmonics-to-noise ratio (HNR) in acoustic analysis.