Maksimovic Jadranka, Vukasinovic Milan, Vlajinac Hristina, Jotic Ana, Djukic Vojko, Marinkovic Jelena, Krejovic-Trivic Sanja, Milovanovic Jovica
Institute of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Folia Phoniatr Logop. 2020;72(3):242-248. doi: 10.1159/000499927. Epub 2019 May 27.
The Voice Handicap Index-10 (VHI-10) is used in clinics because of its validity and ease of use by patients.
The aim of this paper was to evaluate the internal consistency, reliability, and clinical validity of the Serbian version of the VHI-10.
In this cross-sectional study, we translated the original English version of the VHI-10 into Serbian, after which it was back-translated into English. The Serbian version of the VHI-10 was completed by 161 patients with voice disorders, divided into 4 groups according disease etiology (structural, neurological, functional, and inflammatory) and 73 healthy control subjects.
The VHI-10 internal consistency was 0.88. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for VHI-10 test-retest reliability was ρ = 0.991 (p< 0.001). Patients with voice disorders had higher median total VHI-10 scores compared with controls (p< 0.001). The patients' Grade, Instability, Roughness, Breathiness, Asthenia, and Strain (GIRBAS) scale scores were significantly correlated with the VHI-10 test scores (ρ = 0,682, p < 0.001) and VHI-10 retest scores (ρ = 0.716, p < 0.001).
The Serbian version of the VHI-10 had good validity and reliability and can be used by Serbian patients with voice disorders.
嗓音障碍指数-10（VHI-10）因其有效性及患者使用便捷性而在临床中得到应用。
本文旨在评估VHI-10塞尔维亚语版本的内部一致性、可靠性及临床有效性。
在这项横断面研究中，我们将VHI-10的原始英文版本翻译成塞尔维亚语，之后再回译成英文。161例嗓音障碍患者完成了VHI-10塞尔维亚语版本的测试，这些患者根据疾病病因分为4组（结构型、神经型、功能型和炎症型），另有73名健康对照者参与。
VHI-10的内部一致性为0.88。VHI-10重测信度的Spearman等级相关系数为ρ = 0.991（p < 0.001）。与对照组相比，嗓音障碍患者的VHI-10总分中位数更高（p < 0.001）。患者的嗓音等级、不稳定性、粗糙性、气息声、无力感及紧张度（GIRBAS）量表评分与VHI-10测试分数（ρ = 0.682，p < 0.001）及VHI-10重测分数（ρ = 0.716，p < 0.001）显著相关。
VHI-10塞尔维亚语版本具有良好的有效性和可靠性，可供塞尔维亚嗓音障碍患者使用。
