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Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2020 Feb 8;130(5):1243–1248. doi: 10.1002/lary.28203

Table 2:

Voice diagnoses among patients with voice disorders and mental health disorders

	MH then VD n= 7251 (63%)	VD then MH n= 4167 (37%)	VD +MH total N= 11419l	P value^*
Voice Category n, (%)^†
Acute laryngitis	2362 (32.6)	1308 (31.4)	3670	0.1888
Chronic laryngitis	126 (1.7)	96 (2.3)	222	0.0351
Benign neoplasm of the larynx	143 (2.0)	148 (3.6)	291	<.0001
Laryngeal cancer	82 (1.1)	185 (4)	267	<.0001
Combined nonspecific dysphonia	4996 (68.9)	2846 (68.3)	7842	0.4926
Vocal fold paresis/paralysis	280 (3.9)	227 (5.5)	507	<.0001
Laryngeal stenosis	54 (0.7)	80 (2.0)	134	<.0001
Laryngeal spasm	128 (1.8)	88 (2.1)	216	0.1913
Mental health categories n, (%)^a
Depression	5502 (75.9)	2195 (52.7)	7697	<.0001
Anxiety	5401(74.5)	2479 (59.4)	7880	<.0001
Somatoform	715 (9.9)	680 (16.3)	1395	<.0001
Stress-related diagnoses (including adjustment disorders)	1502 (20.7)	638 (15.3)	2140	<.0001

Patients may have multiple voice or mental health diagnoses

^†

P value was calculated via chi-square test

MH = mental health, VD = voice diagnosis