SUMMARY
Purpose
To verify the relationship between obesity, voice and behavior in childhood and adolescence,
through an integrative review.
Methods
The researchers surveyed the articles indexed in the following databases: Embase,
Web of Science, Scopus and Pubmed, using uniterms found in the Medical Subject Headings,
related to the subject of the study, combined by the Boolean operators “and” and “or”,
published until January 2022. In the end, three reviewers selected the articles.
Results
When searching for studies related to voice, obesity and behavior, 62 articles were
found that did not meet the selection criteria and were excluded. Given this result,
new searches were carried out with the following crossing strategies: voice and obesity
and; Voice, Behavior and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). After the evaluation of
the reviewers, two articles were selected referring to the intersection “voice and
obesity in children and adolescents” and, two studies, in the intersection between
“voice, behavior and CBCL”. The first study on voice and obesity showed that the greater
the abdominal circumference, the greater the maximum expiratory force and sound pressure
found. The second study showed high Jitter and NHR values in obese children. Furthermore,
studies on voice, behavior and CBCL showed that children with vocal nodules were more
sociable than children without vocal nodules, and had behaviors described as “screams
a lot” and “teases a lot”. On the other hand, another study found potential risks
of behavioral changes in the face of vocal complaints.
Conclusions
Although this literature review did not find studies associating obesity with vocal
and behavioral disorders, the literature found showed the presence of vocal alteration
in some acoustic parameters in obese children. Regarding voice, behavior and CBCL,
two studies were found reporting the presence of behavioral changes in children with
voice-related complaints, according to the opinion of their parents.
Key Words
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Publication history
Published online: July 06, 2022
Accepted:
May 31,
2022
Publication stage
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