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The impact of stuttering on the quality of life in adults who stutter.
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Findings indicated that stuttering does negatively impact QOL in the vitality, social functioning, emotional functioning and mental health status domains and tentatively suggest that people who stutter with increased levels of severity may have a higher risk of poor emotional functioning.About:
This article is published in Journal of Fluency Disorders.The article was published on 2009-06-01. It has received 376 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stuttering & Quality of life.read more
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Health literacy interventions and outcomes: an updated systematic review.
Nancy D. Berkman,Stacey L. Sheridan,Katrina E Donahue,David J Halpern,Anthony J. Viera,Karen Crotty,Audrey Holland,Michelle Brasure,Kathleen N. Lohr,Elizabeth Harden,Elizabeth Tant,Ina Wallace,Meera Viswanathan +12 more
TL;DR: Differences in health literacy level were consistently associated with increased hospitalizations, greater emergency care use, lower use of mammography, lower receipt of influenza vaccine, poorer ability to demonstrate taking medications appropriately, poorer able to interpret labels and health messages, and, among seniors, poorer overall health status and higher mortality.
LANGUAGE IN INDIA Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow
TL;DR: Investigation of the phonological length of utterance in native Kannada speaking children of 3 to 7 years age revealed increase inPMLU score as the age increased suggesting a developmental trend in PMLU acquisition.
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Social anxiety disorder and stuttering: Current status and future directions
Lisa Iverach,Ronald M. Rapee +1 more
TL;DR: In light of the debilitating nature of social anxiety disorder, and the impact of stuttering on quality of life and personal functioning, collaboration between speech pathologists and psychologists is required to develop and implement comprehensive assessment and treatment programmes for social anxiety among people who stutter.
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Social anxiety disorder in adults who stutter
TL;DR: The DSM‐IV diagnostic guidelines for diagnosing SP in AWS could result in professional confusion and have possible negative mental health ramifications, and implications for the psychological and medical treatment of AWS are discussed.
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Assessing quality of life in stuttering treatment outcomes research.
TL;DR: It is proposed that evaluation of stuttering treatment outcomes can be enhanced through assessment of impact ofStuttering on a speaker's quality of life, based on the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES).
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Overview of the SF-36 Health Survey and the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project
John E. Ware,Barbara Gandek +1 more
TL;DR: Information is presented about the development and evaluation of the SF-36 Health Survey, a 36-item generic measure of health status, that summarizes studies of reliability and validity and provides administrative and interpretation guidelines for theSF-36.
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Stuttering: A Review of Research Findings and Theories Circa 1982.
TL;DR: A model of stuttering as a genetically determined reduction in central capacity for efficient sensory-motor integration is preferred, provided acquisition of secondary symptoms is attributed to instrumental learning.
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Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES): Documenting multiple outcomes in stuttering treatment
J. Scott Yaruss,Robert W. Quesal +1 more
TL;DR: This paper summarizes scale development, reliability and validity assessment, and scoring procedures so clinicians and researchers can use the OASES to add to the available evidence about the outcomes of a variety of treatment approaches for adults who stutter.
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Moving from the quality of life concept to a theory.
TL;DR: A conceptual model is proposed that distinguishes causal and indicator variables within the framework of a homeostatic management system and several lines of empirical investigation are suggested to test this and similar theoretical models with a view to taking the conceptualization of QOL to the next level.
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Epidemiology of stuttering in the community across the entire life span.
TL;DR: A randomized and stratified investigation was conducted into the epidemiology of stuttering in the community across the entire life span, finding that the prevalence over the whole population was 0.72%, with higher prevalence rates in younger children and lowest rates in adolescence.
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