Document Detail


How Do Teachers With Self-Reported Voice Problems Differ From Their Peers With Self-Reported Voice Health?
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21889297     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVES: This randomized case-control study compares teachers with self-reported voice problems to age-, gender-, and school-matched colleagues with self-reported voice health. The self-assessed voice function is related to factors known to influence the voice: laryngeal findings, voice quality, personality, psychosocial and coping aspects, searching for causative factors of voice problems in teachers. METHODS: Subjects and controls, recruited from a teacher group in an earlier questionnaire study, underwent examinations of the larynx by high-speed imaging and kymograms; voice recordings; voice range profile; audiometry; self-assessment of voice handicap and voice function; teaching and environmental aspects; personality; coping; burnout, and work-related issues. The laryngeal and voice recordings were assessed by experienced phoniatricians and speech pathologists. RESULTS: The subjects with self-assessed voice problems differed from their peers with self-assessed voice health by significantly longer recovery time from voice problems and scored higher on all subscales of the Voice Handicap Index-Throat. CONCLUSIONS: The results show that the cause of voice dysfunction in this group of teachers with self-reported voice problems is not found in the vocal apparatus or within the individual. The individual's perception of a voice problem seems to be based on a combination of the number of symptoms and of how often the symptoms occur, along with the recovery time. The results also underline the importance of using self-assessed reports of voice dysfunction.
Authors:
Viveka Lyberg Ahlander; Roland Rydell; Anders Löfqvist
Related Documents :
8357547 - Development of aids in people with transfusion-acquired hiv infection.
14682397 - Differences between patients with non-hodgkin's lymphomas in a cohort of hiv/aids patie...
9803127 - Recent mortality patterns in california.
9794127 - Adjusting aids incidence for non-stationary reporting delays: a necessity for country c...
22275637 - A concept of needs-oriented design and evaluation of assistive robots based on icf.
8703637 - Aids education for college students: review and proposal for a research-based curriculum.
Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-8-31
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1557-8658     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-9-5     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8712262     Medline TA:  J Voice     Country:  -    
Other Details:
Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Copyright Information:
Copyright © 2011 The Voice Foundation. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Export Citation:
APA/MLA Format     Download EndNote     Download BibTex
MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine


Previous Document:  Psychometric properties of the Aberrant Behavior Checklist, the Anxiety, Depression and Mood Scale, ...
Next Document:  Determination of Fundamental Frequency and Voice Intensity in Iranian Men and Women Aged Between 18 ...