NCT03382535

Female Teacher's Voice During Teaching

The Well-being of Female Teacher's Voice During Teaching

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oulu · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Two voice therapy methods are compared. Activity noise levels and vocal load of teachers during teaching in primary school classrooms are evaluated. Acoustic and Workshop Interventions are implemented in order to reduce noise level during lesson.

Detailed description

Due to the voice disorders, teachers are a major customer group for voice therapy. The main part of the study is comparison of two voice therapy methods. There are several factors in the classroom that increase teacher's risk of voice disorders. One of the most significant is high noise level during lessons. This study explores the noise conditions the teachers are working in and how these conditions are related to the voice parameters and symptoms. Finally, the study aims to determine whether classroom noise level can be lowered by improving classroom acoustics and by noise reducing workshops for teachers and pupils.

Conditions

• Functional Voice Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Voice therapy	Voice therapy with direct and indirect therapy elements.
BEHAVIORAL	Voice therapy with carryover strategies	Voice therapy with direct and indirect therapy elements and supplementary tasks and reminders.
OTHER	Control group	No therapy during eight weeks. After the control period half of the group will be provided with Voice therapy and half with Voice therapy with carryover strategies.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-12-07
• Primary completion: 2014-12-20
• Completion: 2016-06-14
• First posted: 2017-12-26
• Last updated: 2017-12-26