Shefcik Grace, Tsai Pei-Tzu
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, San José State University, San Jose, California.
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, San José State University, San Jose, California.
J Voice. 2023 Mar;37(2):294.e5-294.e13. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.12.037. Epub 2021 Jan 29.
Transgender individuals may seek a variety of gender-affirming health and educational services, including voice modification from speech-language pathologists. Measuring the client's self-perception of their communication experiences is crucial for providing client-centered services and measuring outcomes. However, there is currently no validated assessment tool for the nonbinary population, a part of the transgender population. This study explores the voice-related concerns and experiences among the nonbinary population to create a valid measure of their self-perception of voice. Ten nonbinary individuals were surveyed about their voice-related concerns and experiences. A thematic analysis of the responses led to the development of the questionnaire, titled the Voice-related Experiences of Nonbinary Individuals. The questionnaire was systematically evaluated for its content validity by a panel of speech-language pathologist experts in transgender voice services. Outcomes of this analysis supported the measure's content validity and motivated further revisions. This is the first assessment tool that measures self-perception of voice and voice-related experiences for nonbinary individuals. Initial psychometric testing supported its content validity and further research is needed for large-scale testing of validity and reliability.
跨性别者可能会寻求各种性别肯定的健康和教育服务，包括言语语言病理学家提供的嗓音改造服务。衡量客户对其沟通经历的自我认知对于提供以客户为中心的服务和衡量结果至关重要。然而，目前还没有针对非二元人群（跨性别群体的一部分）的经过验证的评估工具。本研究探讨了非二元人群中与嗓音相关的担忧和经历，以创建一种衡量他们对嗓音自我认知的有效方法。对10名非二元个体进行了关于他们与嗓音相关的担忧和经历的调查。对这些回答进行主题分析后，编制了一份名为《非二元个体与嗓音相关经历》的问卷。一组从事跨性别嗓音服务的言语语言病理学家专家对该问卷的内容效度进行了系统评估。该分析结果支持了该测量方法的内容效度，并促使进行进一步修订。这是首个衡量非二元个体对嗓音及与嗓音相关经历自我认知的评估工具。初步的心理测量测试支持了其内容效度，还需要进一步研究以进行大规模的效度和信度测试。
