چکیده:
Objectives: This paper describes the validation process of the final form of the Persian version
of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering for Adults (OASES-A-P).
The impact of stuttering on the Persian-speaking people who stutter was compared to other
languages.
Methods: This study with a cross-sectional design involved 92 Persian-speaking adults who
stutter (24 females and 68 males; mean age=20.05±4.85 years). Face and content validity,
internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and item analysis for discriminant validity were
examined. The impact scores and impact ratings were calculated in total and for the sections
separately.
Results: Cronbach’s alpha and ICC proved to be high (0.98; 0.95, P<0.001 respectively).
Corrected item-total correlation revealed no negative score. Mean of total impact score was
2.56(±0.67). Impact ratings for the total impact scores were as follows: mild=8.7%, mildto-
moderate=29.3%, moderate=43.5%, moderate-to-severe=15.2%, and severe=3.3%. The
impact of separate sections in a high to low order were reactions to stuttering, quality of life,
general information, and communication in daily situations.
Discussion: The results of the current study offer a reliable and valid form of the OASES,
which is applicable for Persian-speaking Iranian adults who stutter. The predominant impact
rating of stuttering was shown to be mild-to-moderate and moderate.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: Persian Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering for Adults: the Impact of Stuttering on the Persian-Speaking Adults Who Stutter Fariba Yadegari1 , Tahereh Sima Shirazi1, Peter Howell2 , Reza Nilipour1 , Meysam Shafiei3, Bizhan Shafiei3 , Zahra Ilkhani3, Fatemeh Satarian4, Narges Jafari1, Robert William Quesal5 , J.
:: Article info: Received: 25 Nov 2017 Accepted: 20 Mar 2018 Keywords: Stuttering, Attitude, Quality of life, Persian A B S T R A C T Objectives: This paper describes the validation process of the final form of the Persian version of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering for Adults (OASES-A-P).
The impact of separate sections in a high to low order were reactions to stuttering, quality of life, general information, and communication in daily situations.
Discussion: The results of the current study offer a reliable and valid form of the OASES, which is applicable for Persian-speaking Iranian adults who stutter.
The impact of stuttering on the lives of PWS has been studied in different areas including communicative attitudes [9-11], QOL [12, 13], nervousness [4, 14, 15], educational achievement [16], and attractiveness and romantic life [17].
The Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES) protocol was designed to ap- praise four following components: the perceptions of fluency and speech behavior; the reactions to stuttering; the functional communication difficulties in key situa- tions; and the consequences of stuttering on the lives of people who live with it, i.