{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,2]],"date-time":"2026-08-02T18:19:39Z","timestamp":1785694779700,"version":"3.56.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Medical Association","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Pak Med Assoc"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: To investigate the psychosocial factors having an impact on persons with a stuttering problem.\nMethods: The correlation study was conducted from October 2016 to February 2018 at hospitals, speech clinics and educational institutes of Lahore. The sample was comprised of young adults aged 16-30 years of either gender with development stuttering problem. Data was collected using Stuttering Severity Instrument-4, Social Interaction Anxiety Scale-Urdu, Big Five Measure-20, Overall Assessment of the Speaker\u2019s Experience of Stuttering and the Urdu version of the shortened form of the Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced inventory. \u00a0Data was analysed using SPSS 23.\nResults: Of the 78 subjects, 66(84.6 %) were males and 12 (15.4 %) were females. There were 21(27%) subjects aged 16-19 years and 57(73%) with age range of 20 - 30 years. The overall mean age was 21.96 \u00b1 3.89 years. Mean age of onset was 4.59 \u00b1 1.29 years, while gradual onset and progressive stuttering was reported by 74(94.9 %). The Bilingual users 49(63%) reported to have frequent stuttering. Among the 43(55.1%) who had received treatment, 30 (38%) received speech therapy and 26 (33.3%) reported dissatisfaction. Stuttering severity and social anxiety were significantly positively correlated with all domains of impact of stuttering (p&lt;0.05). Age, and duration were negatively correlated with day-to-day communication (p&lt;0.05) and previous speech treatment showed negative association with impact on general knowledge about stuttering (p&lt;0.05). Avoidance coping strategy had a significant relationship with all domains of impact (p&lt;0.05).\n---Continue<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.47391\/jpma.925","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]],"date-time":"2022-04-09T16:41:54Z","timestamp":1649522514000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Stuttering related and psychosocial predictors of impact of stuttering"],"prefix":"10.47391","author":[{"family":"Humaira Naz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"family":"Rukhsana Kausar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"26547","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]]},"container-title":["Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]],"date-time":"2022-04-09T16:41:55Z","timestamp":1649522515000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ojs.jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/view\/925"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47391\/jpma.925","relation":{},"ISSN":["0030-9982"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0030-9982","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,9]]}}}