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Association between acoustic speech features and non-severe levels of anxiety and depression symptoms across lifespan
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 4, p e0248842 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2021.
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Abstract
- BackgroundSeveral studies have investigated the acoustic effects of diagnosed anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression are not characteristics of the typical aging process, but minimal or mild symptoms can appear and evolve with age. However, the knowledge about the association between speech and anxiety or depression is scarce for minimal/mild symptoms, typical of healthy aging. As longevity and aging are still a new phenomenon worldwide, posing also several clinical challenges, it is important to improve our understanding of non-severe mood symptoms’ impact on acoustic features across lifetime. The purpose of this study was to determine if variations in acoustic measures of voice are associated with non-severe anxiety or depression symptoms in adult population across lifetime.MethodsTwo different speech tasks (reading vowels in disyllabic words and describing a picture) were produced by 112 individuals aged 35-97. To assess anxiety and depression symptoms, the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) was used. The association between the segmental and suprasegmental acoustic parameters and HADS scores were analyzed using the linear multiple regression technique.ResultsThe number of participants with presence of anxiety or depression symptoms is low (>7: 26.8% and 10.7%, respectively) and non-severe (HADS-A: 5.4 ± 2.9 and HADS-D: 4.2 ± 2.7, respectively). Adults with higher anxiety symptoms did not present significant relationships associated with the acoustic parameters studied. Adults with increased depressive symptoms presented higher vowel duration, longer total pause duration and short total speech duration. Finally, age presented a positive and significant effect only for depressive symptoms, showing that older participants tend to have more depressive symptoms.ConclusionsNon-severe depression symptoms can be related to some acoustic parameters and age. Depression symptoms can be explained by acoustic parameters even among individuals without severe symptom levels.
- Subjects :
- Male
Aging
Emotions
Adult population
Social Sciences
Audiology
Anxiety
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine
Psychology
030212 general & internal medicine
Middle aged
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Aged, 80 and over
Grammar
Multidisciplinary
Depression
Physics
Syllables
Middle Aged
Anxiety Disorders
Physical Sciences
Cross-sectional studies
Multiple linear regression analysis
Female
medicine.symptom
Research Article
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Depression scale
Science
Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Phonology
Neuroses
Speech Acoustics
03 medical and health sciences
Phonetics
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Speech acoustics
Speech
Humans
Healthy aging
Association (psychology)
Vowels
Aged
Portugal
business.industry
Mood Disorders
Biology and Life Sciences
Linguistics
Acoustics
Mood
Cross-Sectional Studies
business
Bioacoustics
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....754e8647714fa8df89ba633701304997