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A speech and psychological profile of treatment-seeking adolescents who stutter

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Fluency Disorders, November 2016
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Title
A speech and psychological profile of treatment-seeking adolescents who stutter
Published in
Journal of Fluency Disorders, November 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.jfludis.2016.11.001
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Lisa Iverach, Robyn Lowe, Mark Jones, Susan O’Brian, Ross G. Menzies, Ann Packman, Mark Onslow

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between stuttering severity, psychological functioning, and overall impact of stuttering, in a large sample of adolescents who stutter. Participants were 102 adolescents (11-17 years) seeking speech treatment for stuttering, including 86 boys and 16 girls, classified into younger (11-14 years, n=57) and older (15-17 years, n=45) adolescents. Linear regression models were used to evaluate the relationship between speech and psychological variables and overall impact of stuttering. The impact of stuttering during adolescence is influenced by a complex interplay of speech and psychological variables. Anxiety and depression scores fell within normal limits. However, higher self-reported stuttering severity predicted higher anxiety and internalizing problems. Boys reported externalizing problems-aggression, rule-breaking-in the clinical range, and girls reported total problems in the borderline-clinical range. Overall, higher scores on measures of anxiety, stuttering severity, and speech dissatisfaction predicted a more negative overall impact of stuttering. To our knowledge, this is the largest cohort study of adolescents who stutter. Higher stuttering severity, speech dissatisfaction, and anxiety predicted a more negative overall impact of stuttering, indicating the importance of carefully managing the speech and psychological needs of adolescents who stutter. Further research is needed to understand the relationship between stuttering and externalizing problems for adolescent boys who stutter.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 108 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 14%
Student > Bachelor 14 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 9%
Researcher 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 18 17%
Unknown 36 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 10%
Social Sciences 5 5%
Linguistics 4 4%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 42 39%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 February 2018.
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#3,779,343
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Fluency Disorders
#2
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