Adductor focal laryngeal Dystonia: correlation between clinicians’ ratings and subjects’ perception of Dysphonia

Table 5 Comparison of Severity of Current Symptoms with Severity at Diagnosis*

Vocal symptom N = 60	Corresponding DSQ Questions	Mean severity at initial diagnosis (SD)	Mean current severity (SD)	P
Severity of dysphonia	Q1, Q2	4.47 (0.68)	3.19 (0.89)	<0.00001*
Strain-Strangled Voice Quality (effortful phonation)	Q8, Q9	4.21 (0.86)	3.02 (1.00)	<0.00001*
Voice arrest (voice cuts off)	Q3, Q4	4.20 (0.97)	2.89 (1.02)	<0.00001*
Roughness (hoarse / husky)	Q5, Q7	3.41 (1.40)	3.01 (1.18)	0.10000
Voice tremor (shaking voice)	Q10, Q11	3.76 (1.31)	2.71 (1.19)	0.00002*
Increased expiratory effort	Q12, Q13	4.21 (0.90)	3.07 (1.11)	<0.00001*

Note: The DSQ symptom severity rating scale is a 5-point scale (i.e., 1 = mild, 2 = mild-to-moderate, 3 = moderate, 4 = moderate-to-severe, and 5 = severe). Q = question
^*Findings were statistically significant at the .01 level

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