de Britto Pereira Monica Medeiros, Rossi Jamile Perni, Van Borsel John
Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
J Fluency Disord. 2008 Mar;33(1):24-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2007.10.001. Epub 2007 Oct 23.
This study reports the results of an investigation of public awareness and knowledge of stuttering in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A total number of 606 street recruited respondents answered questions on various aspects of stuttering, including prevalence, onset, gender distribution, occurrence in different cultures, cause, treatment, intelligence, and hereditariness. The questionnaire used was a Portuguese version of the one by [Van Borsel, J., Verniers, I. & Bouvry, S. (1999). Public awareness of stuttering. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 51, 124-132]. Although, stuttering is a disorder which is known to a majority of the participants, knowledge appears to be limited for certain aspects. Knowledge also differs among subgroups of participants according to gender, age and educational level. Comparison of the results of the current study with similar studies conducted in Belgium and in Shanghai, China shows several similarities but also some differences.
The reader will be able to: (1) discuss public awareness and knowledge of stuttering in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (2) discuss the differences in knowledge according to gender, age and educational level and; (3) discuss similarities and differences with comparable studies run in Belgium and Shanghai, China.
本研究报告了对巴西里约热内卢公众对口吃的认知和了解情况的调查结果。总共606名在街头招募的受访者回答了关于口吃各个方面的问题，包括患病率、发病情况、性别分布、在不同文化中的发生情况、病因、治疗、智力和遗传性。所使用的问卷是[Van Borsel, J., Verniers, I. & Bouvry, S. (1999). 公众对口吃的认知。《言语治疗与语音病理学杂志》，51, 124 - 132]一文问卷的葡萄牙语版本。尽管大多数参与者都知道口吃是一种疾病，但在某些方面的了解似乎有限。参与者的不同亚组在知识方面也因性别、年龄和教育水平而有所差异。将本研究结果与在比利时和中国上海进行的类似研究结果进行比较，发现了一些相似之处，但也存在一些差异。
读者将能够：(1) 讨论巴西里约热内卢公众对口吃的认知和了解情况；(2) 讨论根据性别、年龄和教育水平在知识方面的差异；以及(3) 讨论与在比利时和中国上海进行的可比研究的异同。
