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Table 5 Assessment of the correlation between performance of the articulatory organs measured by means of the FDA scale and the VHI based extent of vocal impairments in ALS patients divided into groups

From: Comparative assessment and monitoring of deterioration of articulatory organs using subjective and objective tools among patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

VHI

Group I (n = 40) VHI total 120 items R Spearman

Group II (n = 23) VHI total 120 items R Spearman

FDA

Cough

0.5499b

0.5200b

Swallowing

0.6762b

0.5542b

Saliva control

0.4871a

0.5983b

Breathing (at rest)

0.3881a

No correlation

Lips (at rest)

0.5003b

0.4997a

Soft palate at rest

0.6513b

0.5615b

Length of phonation

0.4956a

0.6106b

Pitch

0.4043a

0.7145c

Voice volume

0.4345a

0.6621b

Tongue (at rest)

0.4017a

0.5328b

Speech comprehension

No correlation

0.4333a

Sentence comprehension

0.4978a

0.5412b

Spontaneous speech comprehension

0.5370b

0.4928a

  1. Strength of correlation: aweak positive; bmoderate positive; cstrong positive.
  2. Abbreviations: n group size