Self-Perceived Voice Handicap during COVID19 Compulsory Facemask Use: a Comparative Study Between Portuguese and Spanish speakers

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Self-Perceived Voice Handicap during COVID19 Compulsory Facemask Use: a Comparative Study Between Portuguese and Spanish speakers Via Journal of Voice This study investigates self-perceptions of voice-related handicap, quantified by means of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI), as a function of facemask use in the general working population during the COVID19 outbreak. Each VHI item was answered twice in a raw; the first answer referred to the condition of not wearing a facemask (henceforth, the Without condition) and the second to facemask use (henceforth, the With condition). VHI scores were collected via Google Forms (Google, Mountain View, California), targeting two groups of speakers, Portuguese (n = 261) and Spanish (n = 297). View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.