Yusuf Kemal Kemaloğlu

Endemic Goiter in Kitâbu Divanü Lügat-it Türk: Evidence From 11th Century - Gazi Medical Journal

Tracheotomy,tracheostomy,coronavirus disease 2019,prolonged intubation,upper airway obstruction

Purpose The ongoing literature suggests that COVID-19 may have a potential impact on voice characteristics during the infection period. In the current study, we explored how the disease deteriorates different vocal parameters in patients who recovered from COVID-19. Methods A total of 80 participants, 40 patients with a prior history of COVID-19 (20 male, 20 female) with a mean age of 39.9 ± 8.8 (range, 21–53) and 40 gender and age-matched healthy individuals (mean age, 37.3 ± 8.8; range, 21–54) were included to this study. The data of acoustic voice analyses, durational measurements, patient-reported outcomes, and auditory-perceptual evaluations were compared between the study group and the control group. Correlation analyses were conducted to examine the association between the clinical characteristics of the recovering patients and measured outcomes. Results Maximum phonation time (MPT) and the scores of both Voice Handicap Index-10 (VHI-10) and Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL) questionnaires significantly differed between the groups, which was more evident in female participants. The overall severity score of dysphonia was found to be higher in the study group than the control group (p = 0.023), but gender-based comparisons reached significance only in males (p = 0.032). VHI-10 and V-RQOL revealed significant correlations with the symptom scores of the disease. Conclusions Patients with a prior history of COVID-19 had significantly lower MPT, increased VHI-10 scores, decreased voice-related quality of life based on the V-RQOL questionnaire, and higher overall severity scores in the auditory-perceptual evaluation. Self-reported voice complaints disclosed close relationships with the symptom scores of COVID-19 disease.

Objective: Our aim was to look for the association of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with subjective noise sensitivity (SNS) in the audiologically and perceptually normal hearing subjects since HRQoL was suggested as a tool during the intervention of the hearing impaired people. Methods: The audiological evaluation was first done in the subjects who were enrolled from the previous study in which Weinstein Noise Sensitivity Scale (WNSS) was adapted to Turkish. Then, the Short Form-36 (SF-36) scores were determined and the relationships of WNSS score with the SF-36 scores were analysed in respect to gender, age, audiological variables. Results: Of 210, 124 subjects (M:44; F:80) were taken to the study. WNSS score presented no gender difference and correlation with age and audiological variables. It was found that WNSS score was significantly correlated with emotional and mental domains of HRQoL in women and physical and social functioning in men. Role limitations due to physical health, mental health, role limitations due to emotional problems, social functioning, vitality and mental composite scores were significantly lower in the upper SNS subgroup. Conclusion: It was revealed that SNS was strongly associated with HRQoL in perceptionally and audiologically normal hearing males and females via different domains. Therefore, in case of using HRQoL in audiological care, our data suggest that SNS should be taken into account.

İşitme kayıplı öğrencilerin okuryazarlık becerilerinden öğrenme süreçlerine kadar geniş bir etkiye sahip olan dil becerileri, işitsel ve sözel bileşenlerden oluşmaktadır. İşitme kayıplı öğrencilerin işitsel-sözel becerileri sürdürmede yaşayabileceği zorluklar düşünüldüğünde eğitim ortamlarında düzenleme yapılması önemlidir. Çalışmada uzaktan eğitim ile ilk kez tanışan işitme kayıplı ilkokul öğrencilerinin işitsel-sözel performansının uzaktan eğitim gereksinimleriyle ilişkisini incelemek amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmanın verileri Ankara ilindeki 2020-2021 eğitim yılı ilkokul seviyesindeki %44’ü kız (n=22) ve %56’sı erkek (n=28) olmak üzere 50 işitme kayıplı öğrenciden elde edilmiştir. Araştırmacı tarafından geliştirilen “Ebeveynlerin İşitme Kayıplı Öğrencilerin Uzaktan Eğitim Gereksinimlerini Değerlendirme Ölçeği” ve Eroğlu (2018) tarafından Türkçe’ye uyarlanan “Ebeveynlerin Çocukların İşitsel/Sözel Performansını Değerlendirme (EÇİPED) Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır. İki ölçek formunun toplam puanları ve alt boyut puanları arasındaki ilişki IBM SPSS Statistics 26.0 programında analiz edilmiştir. Geliştirilen ölçeğin toplam puanı ile EÇİPED ölçeği toplam puanı ve sessiz ve gürültü alt boyut puanları arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı ilişki bulunmuştur (p0.05). Geliştirilen ölçeğin öğrenciye ve öğretmene bağlı alt boyut puanları ile EÇİPED toplam puanı ve sessiz ve gürültülü alt boyut puanları arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı ilişki bulunmuştur (p

By HAKAN GÖLAÇ, GÜZİDE ATALIK, YUSUF KEMAL KEMALOĞLU, et al., Published on 01/01/22