Often seen in patients with vocal fold paralysis or severe vocal fold scarring. The Voice Handicap Index (VHI): Development and Validation. Barbara H. Jacobson, Alex Johnson, Cynthia Grywalski, Alice Silbergleit, Gary Jaconsen, Michael S. Benninger.

The Voice Handicap Index (VHI-10) is a measure of a patient’s vocal handicap perception. The index was administered to all patients at their initial evaluation and again, post-therapy, as a means of objectively assessing changes in the severity of their voice symptoms.

The international nine-item Voice Handicap Index (VHI-9i) is a clinically established short-scale version of the original VHI, quantifying the patients’ self-assessed vocal handicap. However, the current vocal impairment classification is based on percentiles.

In 1997, Jacobson et al 4 proposed a questionnaire that subjectively measured voice handicap, which is the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) (Table 1).

Handicap Index (VHI) measures the influence of voice problems on a patient’s quality of life. Objective: To investigate if the VHI can monitor biopsychosocial impact of voice disorders and to provide a frame of reference for use of the VHI in general ENT practice.

Instructions: These are statements that many people have used to describe their voices and the effects of their voices on their lives. Circle the response that indicates how frequently you have the same experience. My voice makes it difficult for people to hear me. 0 1 2 3 4 .

The VHI-10 is a powerful representation of the VHI that takes less time for the patient to complete without loss of validity. Thus, the VHI-10 can replace the VHI as an instrument to quantify patients' perception of their voice handicap.

The aim of the present investigation was the development of a statistically robust Voice Handicap Index (VHI). An 85-item version of this instrument was administered to 65 consecutive patients seen in the Voice Clinic at Henry Ford Hospital.

The original Voice Handicap Index (VHI; Jacobsen et al., 1997) is comprised of 30 items distributed over three domains: functional, physical, and emotional aspects of voice disorders. The overall goal of the VHI is to assess a patients' perception of …

Jun 21, 2023 · Present study aims to assess the different Voice Handicap Index (VHI) scores among patients with moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss and compare them to those with normal hearing.