Similarities and differences across patient completed voice case history questionnaires - A scoping review.
Case history assessment
Health status
Medical conditions
Patient history questionnaire
Vocal Symtpoms
Voice assessment
Voice disorder
Voice use
Journal
Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
ISSN: 1873-4588
Titre abrégé: J Voice
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8712262
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
23 May 2022
23 May 2022
Historique:
received:
10
01
2022
revised:
23
03
2022
accepted:
24
03
2022
entrez:
26
5
2022
pubmed:
27
5
2022
medline:
27
5
2022
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Case history assessments are ubiquitously performed across various health professions for diagnostic purposes. Questionnaires are considered a valuable tool within this process. There is currently no standardized tool available to collect such information in the assessment of voice disorders. Conflicting advice from peak bodies and research evidence makes the process heterogenous, haphazard and difficult to compare findings. To systematically identify existing case history questionnaires available for general clinical practice and provide synthesis and analysis of the questions within. A scoping review was conducted across published and unpublished literature using the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews framework. The broad search included research papers within six electronic databases, textbooks, online publishing sites, voice clinic websites and peak body websites. Search criteria were uniformly applied. Descriptive analysis and content analysis was conducted. At each stage, transparency and replicability was achieved through an independent review process. Identified voice case history questionnaires were few (n = 23) with 80% from unpublished sources. A total of 581 unique questions were identified. No single question was common across all 23 questionnaires. The most frequently asked questions, excluding demographics, included medicines taken (n = 21), smoking (n = 20) and alcohol (n = 19). These questions were not reflected in the highest frequency categories: Health Status/Medical Conditions/Reports (n = 200), Vocal Symptoms (n = 88), Voice Use (n = 51) despite these categories representing 58% of all questions asked. Within the highest frequency category, the subcategory of Systemic Diseases was the highest, representing 19% of all questions within the category. This study illuminates the similarities yet many differences that exist across identified voice case history questionnaires in terms of number of questions, number of categories, preference for question-type and structure. It demonstrates the need for standardization of a voice case history questionnaire which would potentially enable more accurate diagnosis and data comparison between voice clinics to aid future research.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Case history assessments are ubiquitously performed across various health professions for diagnostic purposes. Questionnaires are considered a valuable tool within this process. There is currently no standardized tool available to collect such information in the assessment of voice disorders. Conflicting advice from peak bodies and research evidence makes the process heterogenous, haphazard and difficult to compare findings.
OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE
To systematically identify existing case history questionnaires available for general clinical practice and provide synthesis and analysis of the questions within.
METHODS
METHODS
A scoping review was conducted across published and unpublished literature using the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews framework. The broad search included research papers within six electronic databases, textbooks, online publishing sites, voice clinic websites and peak body websites. Search criteria were uniformly applied. Descriptive analysis and content analysis was conducted. At each stage, transparency and replicability was achieved through an independent review process.
RESULTS
RESULTS
Identified voice case history questionnaires were few (n = 23) with 80% from unpublished sources. A total of 581 unique questions were identified. No single question was common across all 23 questionnaires. The most frequently asked questions, excluding demographics, included medicines taken (n = 21), smoking (n = 20) and alcohol (n = 19). These questions were not reflected in the highest frequency categories: Health Status/Medical Conditions/Reports (n = 200), Vocal Symptoms (n = 88), Voice Use (n = 51) despite these categories representing 58% of all questions asked. Within the highest frequency category, the subcategory of Systemic Diseases was the highest, representing 19% of all questions within the category.
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
This study illuminates the similarities yet many differences that exist across identified voice case history questionnaires in terms of number of questions, number of categories, preference for question-type and structure. It demonstrates the need for standardization of a voice case history questionnaire which would potentially enable more accurate diagnosis and data comparison between voice clinics to aid future research.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35618609
pii: S0892-1997(22)00097-2
doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.03.023
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
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