Clinical Parameters of the Speech-Language Pathology Assessment of the Chronic Cough: A Scoping Review

Rodrigo Dornelas; Maria Christina Bussamara Casmerides; Rebeca Cardoso da Silva; Maria Victória Dos Anjos Souza; Lucas Tito Pereira; Vanessa Veis Ribeiro; Mara Behlau

doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2021.12.012

Clinical Parameters of the Speech-Language Pathology Assessment of the Chronic Cough: A Scoping Review

J Voice. 2022 Jan 8:S0892-1997(21)00438-0. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2021.12.012. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Rodrigo Dornelas¹, Maria Christina Bussamara Casmerides², Rebeca Cardoso da Silva³, Maria Victória Dos Anjos Souza⁴, Lucas Tito Pereira⁵, Vanessa Veis Ribeiro⁶, Mara Behlau⁷

Affiliations

¹ Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Postgraduate Program in Medicine (Otorhinolaryngology), Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV, São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Lagarto, Sergipe, Brazil; Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal de Sergipe - UFS. Lagarto, Sergipe, Brazil; Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Lagarto, Sergipe, Brazil; Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV, São Paulo, Brazil; Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁶ Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil; Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: fgavanessavr@gmail.com.
⁷ Speech-Language Pathology Department, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV, São Paulo, Brazil.

PMID: 35012819
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2021.12.012

Abstract

Objective: to map the clinical parameters used in the speech-language pathology assessment of the chronic cough.

Methods: a scoping review was performed to answer the clinical question: "What are the clinical parameters included in the speech-language pathology assessment of patients with chronic cough?" Evidence was searched by electronic and manual search. The electronic search included: MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Web of Science, SCOPUS, and LILACS. Each database had a specific search strategy. The manual search included Journal of Voice, Chest, and Thorax, Brazilian Library of Theses and Dissertations, Open Grey, and Clinical Trials, in addition to scanning the references of the included studies. The extracted data considered information regarding the publication, sample, assessment, and measures used when assessing chronic cough.

Results: the electronic search found 289 studies; the manual search found 1036 studies; 12 were selected for the present study. The most used assessments were: self-assessment (75%), aerodynamic analysis (66.67%), the perceptual auditory judgment of the voice quality (58.33%), acoustic analysis of the voice (41.67%), cough frequency, and cough threshold (41.67%) and electroglottography (25%).

Conclusions: the subjective instruments were used more frequently, while specific objective instruments, which are recent, were used less frequently. Complementary assessments such as vocal assessment, have been frequently used, also, with no other parameter. A lack of homogeneity was identified in the speech-language pathology assessment and measures of patients with chronic cough, thus, the comparison among studies and clinical analysis is difficult.

Keywords: Chronic cough; Scoping review; Speech-language pathology assessment.

Publication types

Review