title: [Psychological classification of functional voice disorders].
abstract: In an explorative study the classification of a collective of patients with different voice disorders by discriminant and cluster analysis was tried. 21 variables, obtained from 128 patients with various diagnoses of voice disorders, were used. A first discriminant analysis on the basis of diagnoses-groups permitted no differentiation. A subsequent hierarchical cluster analysis indicated a four-cluster-solution. The clusters showed only little association with the phoniatric diagnoses. Cluster 1 is characterized by patients with non-organic voice disorders. Cluster 2 is marked by emotional unstable patients with organic dysphonia. Cluster 3 consists of patients with psychosomatic dysphonia by laryngeal contact granuloma, and cluster 4 contains emotional stable patients suffering from organic dysphonia and from spasmodic dysphonia. Thirteen psychological variables discriminated the clusters significantly: Anxiety about appearing in public, emotionality (neuroticism), life satisfaction, aggressiveness, anxiety, about physical injuries, extraversion.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Phoniatrie/Pädaudiologie der Georg-August-Universität, Gottingen.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kiese-Himmel
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kruse
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D014832:Voice Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Zur psychologischen Klassifikation von Stimmfunktionsstörungen.