Clinical Trial: The Influence of Breathing in Writing

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: The Influence of Mouth Breathing in the Discrimination of Sonority Perception in Writing

Brief Summary: Purpose: To examine whether nasal breathing influences the perception of sound causing trade between hard and soft consonants in the writing of children in school age and the incidence of trade.

Detailed Summary:

To achieve the above goal explained, it was used:

Methods: The sample was consisted of 200 children, 100 previously diagnosed with oronasal breath (51 females and 49 males) who participated in the study group and 100 nasal breathers (54 females and 46 males) which were the control group. 36 words were dictated as minimal pairs to be written. Then a story was submitted in sequence of six figures from which the subjects produced a text.

Sponsor: University of Campinas, Brazil

Current Primary Outcome: Comparison between production written and directed free nose breathers and mouth breathing children [ Time Frame: up to 8 weeks ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: University of Campinas, Brazil

Dates:
Date Received: March 20, 2011
Date Started: August 2008
Date Completion:
Last Updated: May 7, 2015
Last Verified: May 2015