The Effect of Parental Smoking on Voice Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Population

The aim of this study is to elucidate the effect of parental smoking on voice related quality of life in pediatric population.
Pediatric Voice Related Quality of Life (PVRQoL) instrument was administered to the parents of the 104 healthy children without any known voice disorder. Children were evaltaued into two groups. The first group of children had no parental smoking history and no household smoke exposure (non-PS group) as in the second group; at least one parent of child consume tobacco products in the house (PS group). Social emotional (SE) and physical functional (PF) subdomains of the PVRQoL were also calculated.

本研究旨在阐明父母吸烟对儿科人群嗓音相关生活质量的影响。研究向104名无已知嗓音障碍的健康儿童的家长施测了儿科嗓音相关生活质量量表（Pediatric Voice Related Quality of Life, PVRQoL）。受试儿童被分为两组：第一组儿童无父母吸烟史且无家庭烟雾暴露（非PS组，non-PS group）；第二组儿童家中至少有一位家长使用烟草制品（PS组，PS group）。本研究同时计算了PVRQoL的社会情感（Social Emotional, SE）与躯体功能（Physical Functional, PF）子维度得分。