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[Voice self-concept in 230 German patients after head-and-neck malignancy]
Bernhard Lehnert1, Jasmin Balzer1, Daniel Grafmans2
1Universitätsmedizin Greifswald Klinik für Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenheilkunde, Kopf- und Halschirurgie, Abteilung Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie.
Introduction:
The German questionnaire 'Fragebogen zur Erfassung des Stimmlichen Selbstkonzepts (FESS)', published by Nusseck et al 2015, evaluates voice self-concept in 3 scales. There are no normative data for clinical populations published. Gaining an insight into patients' voice self-concept might help in taking individualized decisions in head & neck cancer.
Material And Methods:
230 patients visiting our clinic in head & neck cancer follow-up care were administered the questionnaire. Scale value distributions in this population are described, influences of age and gender investigated.
Results:
The questionnaire performs very well with regard to the scale value distributions. Age and gender effects are tiny, so our data can be used for clinical comparison purposes without respect to gender and age.
Conclusions:
The FESS questionnaire appears to be suitable for patients after head & neck malignancy and normative data for this population are published here.
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