The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 6 Correlation between age and nasometer values

From: Efficacy of an Arabic articulatory errors remediation software program in patients with velopharyngeal valve dysfunction: a quasi-experimental study

Nasometer values		N	Age (years)
Nasometer values		N	R	P
/a/	Pre	40	0.168	0.301
/a/	Post	40	0.238	0.140
/i/	Pre	40	0.346^*	0.029^*
/i/	Post	40	0.300	0.060
/u/	Pre	40	0.157	0.333
/u/	Post	40	0.325^*	0.041^*
/b/	Pre	40	0.249	0.121
/b/	Post	40	0.042	0.795
/t/	Pre	38	0.105	0.530
/t/	Post	39	0.007	0.967
/k/	Pre	32	0.420^*	0.017^*
/k/	Post	40	0.177	0.275
Nasal sentence	Pre	40	0.217	0.178
Nasal sentence	Post	40	0.052	0.750
Oral sentence	Pre	40	0.326^*	0.040^*
Oral sentence	Post	40	0.397^*	0.011^*

r Pearson coefficient
*Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05

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