TABLE I.
Mean Intrarater Spearman’s Rho Correlation Coefficients and Standard Deviations for Each of the Six Regions Rated in the Vocal Tremor Scoring System at the Three Rating Time Points.
Intrarater Reliability
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VTSS Region/Parameter Rated | Pretraining SRCC | Post-training SRCC | Long-term Post-training SRCC |
Palate | 0.716 (0.31) | 0.794 (0.08) | 0.895 (0.10) |
Base of tongue | 0.737 (0.19) | 0.713 (0.29) | 0.871 (0.08) |
Pharyngeal walls | 0.684 (0.35) | 0.881 (0.05) | 0.918 (0.06) |
Larynx (global) | 0.768 (0.12) | 0.897 (0.10) | 0.870 (0.07) |
Supraglottis | 0.778 (0.12) | 0.834 (0.16) | 0.888 (0.11) |
True vocal folds | 0.548 (0.34) | 0.923 (0.06) | 0.952 (0.06) |
Total score | 0.790 (0.16) | 0.929 (0.04) | 0.954 (0.02) |
SRCC = Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients; VTSS = Vocal Tremor Scoring System.