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Voice Handicap Index

The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) is a 30-item self-report questionnaire that measures the impact of voice disorders on quality of life and functional communication. Developed by Jacobson and colleagues in 1997, it quantifies the psychosocial, physical, and emotional burden of dysphonia across functional, physical, and emotional domains. Widely used in otolaryngology and speech-language pathology to assess treatment outcomes and monitor disease progression.

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Voice Handicap Index (VHI)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / speech-language-pathology
  • Jacobson, B. H., Johnson, A., Grywalski, C., Silbergleit, A., Jacobson, G., Benninger, M. S., & Newman, C. W. (1997). The Voice Handicap Index (VHI): Development and Validation. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 6(3), 66–70. · DOI 10.1044/1058-0360.0603.66
  • Rosen, C. A., Lee, A. S., Osborne, J., Zullo, T., & Murry, T. (2004). Development and Validation of the Voice Handicap Index-10. Laryngoscope, 114(9), 1549–1556. · DOI 10.1097/00005537-200409000-00009
  • Jacobson, B. H., Johnson, A., & Grywalski, C. (2003). Perceived Vocal Effort and Voice Handicap in Subjects With Voice Disorders. Journal of Voice, 17(2), 146–151. · URL
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Same method familyDysphagia Outcome and Severity Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyGRBAS Voice Perceptual Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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