Effect of Different Body Postures on the Severity of Stuttering in Young Adults with Developmental Stuttering

Table 3

Comparisons of the severity score, reading task score, and speaking task score in different postural conditions.

	Chair with no arms	Lying down	Standing	Chair with arms	Stretch neck muscles	p-value	Significant difference between tested postural conditions
							Chair with no arms vs Lie down	Chair with no arms vs Chair with arms
Severity score†	68.4 SD 26.8	42.9 SD 18.6	57.9 SD 20.6	44.5 SD 16.2	49.6 SD 15.5	.007	.012	.024
Reading task score†	6.1 SD 1.8	3.8 SD 1.9	5.1 SD 1.5	4.2 SD 1.2	4.6 SD 1.2	.004	.003	.028
Speaking task score†	7.9 SD 1.6	5.7 SD 1.5	6.9 SD 1.6	5.9 SD 1.5	6.1 SD 1.4	.002	.003	.009

Repeated-measure ANOVA test (p<0.05). Data are presented as mean with standard deviation.
†Severity, reading, and speaking task scores were given in percentile rank.