Treatment of Vocal Fatigue in Teachers

Imaezue, Gerald C.

doi:10.15406/joentr.2017.07.00189

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“…One explanation is that participants had greater awareness of their vocal demand responses but their adjustments in their voice production were small, and not perceptible by voice acoustic parameters. These findings agree with Imaezue and Oyebola ( 29 ) who reported that vocal hygiene training and resonant voice therapy are effective in reducing self-perceptive symptoms of vocal fatigue among teachers.…”

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Effect of an online Workplace Vocal Health and Low Stress Levels Promotion Program implemented in a Colombian university during COVID-19 pandemic

Atará-Piraquive,

Forero-Suárez,

Cárdenas-Martinez

et al. 2023

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Purpose To determine the effect of an online Workplace Vocal Health and Low Stress Levels (WVHLS) Promotion Program implemented in a Colombian university during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This research was a quasi-experimental study. Twenty-nine professors participated in this study within two groups: (1) intervention group (n=17) or (2) non-intervention group (n=12). Participants in the intervention group took part in four virtual sessions about how to improve vocal health and strategies to reduce stress levels during their homeworking and online classes. Teachers filled in a questionnaire including questions about working conditions, work-related stress, and the voice functioning (including the Vocal Fatigue Index-VFI). They also recorded a voice sample of a sustained vowel on two separate occasions (before and after the follow-up). Results At the end of the follow-up, there was a tendency to reduce Factor 1 of VFI in the intervention group. Although, all participants had a longer MPT at the end of the study compared with the baseline measures, males in the intervention group had longer MPT compared with other participants. Conclusion Our results suggest a positive effect of a WVHLS promotion program on reducing vocal fatigue perception measured by means of the Vocal Fatigue Index and improving coordination and control of breathing speech measured MPT. These changes at the end of the follow-up may indicate that holistic programs that include voice care recommendations, breathing exercises, vocal warm-up, cold-down and laryngeal relaxation vocal exercises, and stress management may be beneficial for reducing work-related stress and voice symptoms among professors.

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Effect of an online Workplace Vocal Health and Low Stress Levels Promotion Program implemented in a Colombian university during COVID-19 pandemic

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Cárdenas-Martinez

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“…School teachers can be categorized as Level II professional voice users as per classification by Kouffman and Isaacson 1991, [1] for whom moderate vocal difficulty would prevent adequate job performance. As a profession, teaching has excessive vocal demands and long periods of continuous speaking [2]. In India, a normal classroom has 40 students and rooms are usually noisy because of which the teachers have to raise their voices to reach effectively to the students.…”

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Vocal Fatigue in School Teachers and It’s Relation to the Acoustic analysis of Voice

Arya

Bagwan

Relekar

2020

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Voice disorders are thought to be one of the major occupational hazards of school teaching. There is a need to study the prevalence of vocal fatigue in school teachers as it is unknown in Indian population and its awareness is at a very basic level. We aim to investigate percentage of school teachers reporting vocal fatigue and to find if there is any relationship between vocal fatigue and acoustic voice parameters. A total of 100 subjects (50males and 50-females) in the age range of 25-35 years participated in the study. Voice Sample was obtained from the subject using a digital tape recorder and was analyzed in Visi pitch and Dr.Speech softwares. The sample was taken twice in a day, that is, before teaching and after teaching. The mean values obtained on all the questions of the vocal fatigue questionnaire show a significant increase in mean values on all the questions at post teaching ratings. Results revealed a statistically significant difference in pre and post teaching values of F0 and shimmer in males. In females, statistical significant difference was obtained in Noise to Harmonic Ratio in /u/ production. No significant correlation between acoustic parameters and overall vocal fatigue was found except for Noise to Harmonic ratio in females for /u/.

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Effect of Vocal Function Exercises on the Voice Handicap Index, Vocal Fatigue Index, and Number of Vocal Fatigue Symptoms in Bank Workers: Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

Zadeh,

Torabinezhad,

Saffarian

et al. 2024

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Treatment of Vocal Fatigue in Teachers

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References 14 publications

Effect of an online Workplace Vocal Health and Low Stress Levels Promotion Program implemented in a Colombian university during COVID-19 pandemic

Effect of an online Workplace Vocal Health and Low Stress Levels Promotion Program implemented in a Colombian university during COVID-19 pandemic

Vocal Fatigue in School Teachers and It’s Relation to the Acoustic analysis of Voice

Effect of Vocal Function Exercises on the Voice Handicap Index, Vocal Fatigue Index, and Number of Vocal Fatigue Symptoms in Bank Workers: Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

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