Voice-related quality of life post and pre laryngotracheal reconstruction on pediatric and teen population: preliminary results

Resumo

Quantitative, observational and longitudinal study, wich purposes to analyze the voice-related quality of life post and pre LRT and correlate the voice-related quality of life data with voice quality longitudinally on the pediatric and teen population, patients at the Otorhinolaryngology Pediatric Ambulatory of the Unicamp Hospital of Clinics. The pediatric voice-related quality of life (QVV-P) and the CAPE-V protocol were applied and the voices recorded were analyzed. 22 participants composed the sample, but two were excluded. The analysis was divided in two different moments: pre (n=3) versus post LRT (n=17); post LRT 1 (n=3) versus post LRT 2 (n=3) (longitunal evaluation) and the analyzes showed that immediately post LRT the voice-related quality of life and the voice quality decreases, but gets better on the longitudinal evaluation. Although the pre LRT sample is reduced, this is a pioneer study in Brazil and shows that over the time with medical and therapeutic monitoring, the voice-related quality of life increases.