NCT03101449

Analysis of the Effects of Vocal Conditioning Through Semi-occluded Vocal Tract Exercises in Choir Singers

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research aims to evaluate the effects of vocal conditioning through two semioccluded vocal tract exercises (SOVTE) in choir singers.

Detailed description

This research aims to evaluate the effects of vocal conditioning through two semioccluded vocal tract exercises (SOVTE) - Finnish tube and phonation in high strength straw - in vocal parameters, vocal extension profile and maximum phonation time for a period of four months in a group of singers. acoustic analysis will be performed of the average parameters of the fundamental frequency (F0), jitter, shimmer and glottal to Noise Excitation (GNE) by VoxMetria program and perceptual analysis through Consensus Assessment Perceptual Hearing the Voice Protocol (CAPE-V) three times: before the vocal conditioning, after the last meeting of the technical realization and a week after the vocal conditioning period.

Conditions

• Voice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Finnish tube	Practice the exercise with Finnish tube before choir practice once a week for a period of 14 weeks.
OTHER	Staw phonation	Practice the exercise straw phonation before choir practice once a week for a period of 14 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2017-07-01
• First posted: 2017-04-05
• Last updated: 2017-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil