NCT04858542

Evaluating the Impact of Vocal Health Education on Mask-wearing Workers During COVID-19

Developing Educational Modules to Improve Communication and Vocal Health Among Mask-wearing Healthcare Workers: Phase 2 of the COVID-19 Critical Community Challenge Grant

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Cincinnati · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this clinical trial is to understand how viewing educational health modules impacts vocal health behaviors in mask-wearing healthcare workers.

Detailed description

Results of the investigators' previous work showed that mask-wearing healthcare workers have difficulty with voice and communication. Healthcare workers reported significant increases in vocal effort and dyspnea while wearing masks, and showed greater effort and poorer vocal quality at the end of the workday compared to the beginning of the day. Despite these negative changes, very few healthcare workers reported using any type of communication strategy (e.g., taking breaks, using gestures). Therefore, the investigators developed educational modules to address the voice and communication problems facing this population. This clinical trial plans to evaluate how these educational modules impact subjective/objective voice and communication measures in mask-wearing healthcare workers.

Conditions

• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Educational Vocal Health Modules	We have developed four educational health modules (total duration of approximately 30 minutes). First, these modules explain how masks impact communication and voice, then they describe health strategies to improve communication and voice, and finally, they give real-life examples of how the strategies can be implemented into the work setting.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-26
• Primary completion: 2021-05-01
• Completion: 2021-09-01
• First posted: 2021-04-26
• Last updated: 2022-01-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States