Impact of anxiety on stuttering: Neurobehavioral aspects
Journal Title: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Purpose To investigate the impact of anxiety related stuttering and severity of stuttering related to neurobehavioral changes including demographics of the people who stutter Materials and Method A casecontrol observational study was conducted and data were collected from the subjects by data collection form for stuttering and an anxiety scale by taking an interview regarding hisher stutter and was analyzed in SPSS Ver 20 Result A total of 180 subjects were included in the study and were divided into three groups that is stuttering with anxiety stuttering alone and control group The results of the present study revealed a significant difference between people who stuttered and people who did not stutter on measures of anxiety Anxiety had a direct impact on stuttering subjects when the stuttering parameters were taken into consideration The severity of stuttering was associated with the degree of anxiety The results of the present study also revealed that there is a significant relationship between anxiety and the neurobehavioral changes in stuttering subjects Conclusion A wide variability of scores on the Hamilton scale of Anxiety and the data collection form for stuttering suggests that the levels of anxiety were individualized and there was a subgroup of stuttering subjects who had little or no impact of anxiety on their stutter The hypotheses were supported by statistical analysis Keywords Stuttering anxiety Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale Neurobehavioral changes
Authors and Affiliations
Ranbir Singh, Shamsher Singh, Amit Sharma, Richa Arya
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