The Vegetation Health index (VHI) is based on a combination of products extracted from vegetation signals, namely the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and from the brightness temperatures, both derived from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor. VH users rely on a strong inverse correlation between NDVI and land surface temperature, since increasing land ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between acoustic analysis and biopsychosocial implications of voice problems, evaluated by the Voice Handicap Index (VHI). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study comprised 120 female teachers with voice disorders, evaluated by videolaryngostroboscopy. 60.8% of this group were diagnosed as having functional dysphonia and 39.2% had dy...

OBJECTIVE Constructing an internationally applicable short-scale of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI). METHODS Subjects were 1,052 patients with 5 different types of voice disorder groups from Belgium, France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and the USA. Different 9- and 12-item subsets were selected from the 30 VHI items using (1) the first factor of an unrotated factor analy...

OBJECTIVE To assess relationships between voice satisfaction and global quality of life in patients who have been treated for laryngeal cancer. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey study. SETTING Veterans Affairs Medical Center. PATIENTS Eighty patients who had completed treatment for laryngeal cancer with either total laryngectomy (n=17), radiotherapy (n=24), or both (n=39). MAIN OUTCOME MEAS...

INTRODUCTION The Voice Handicap Index has been shown to be a valid instrument for assessing self-perceived handicap associated with dysphonia. OBJECTIVES To test the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the VHI-30 (Voice Handicap Index) and its shortened version VHI-10. SUBJECTS AND METHOD The original VHI-30 was translated into Spanish and was completed by 232 dysphonic patien...

OBJECTIVE This study focuses on the relation of smoking, carcinophobia and voice handicap in dysphonic patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty-four German-speaking outpatient voice clinic attendees suffering from dysphonia of benign origin took part in this study. All patients completed the German version of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) and were asked about their fear of suffering from larynge...

The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) is a widespread self-evaluation instrument for measuring the psycho-social handicapping effect of a voice disorder over 3 domains, the physical (P), the emotional (E) and the functional (F) domain. It consists of 30 items/statements to be scored from 0 to 4 . An abridged version (VHI-10) has been proposed and validated. Patients with SD report a severe psycho-soci...

Selective laryngeal adductor denervation-reinnervation surgery for the treatment of adductor spasmodic dysphonia was reported in 1999 in 21 patients with encouraging results. Here, we report long-term results of this procedure. Surgical outcome was evaluated using patient surveys and perceptual voice assessment. Measured outcomes included Voice Handicap Index (VHI)-10 scores, patient questionna...

Operative Technique Table 1. Voice Handicap Index Scores

Treatment of small carcinoma of the larynx may lead to voice handicap and restricted quality of life. The relationship between the two is revealed. Sixty-five patients aged 62.1 ± 10.0 years rated their voice handicap and quality of life after treatment of T1 (n = 35) or T2 (n = 30) laryngeal carcinoma during regular out-patient examinations. For the self-assessment of the voice, the Voice Hand...