Status:

COMPLETED

Female Teacher's Voice During Teaching

Lead Sponsor:

University of Oulu

Collaborating Sponsors:

Tampere University

Oulu University Hospital

Conditions:

Functional Voice Disorder

Eligibility:

FEMALE

Phase:

NA

Brief 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...

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 th...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Female teachers or teachers of special needs children from elementary schools
  • Voice symptoms and willingness to participate in voice therapy
  • Mother tongue Finnish
  • No hearing loss, no need to use a hearing aid
  • Non-smoking
  • No neurological diseases
  • No voice therapy during past year
  • Successful phoniatric examination with rigid laryngoscopy or nasal endoscopy

Exclusion

  • Mother tongue other than Finnish
  • Need to use a hearing aid
  • Need for medical treatment in the larynx
  • Abnormalities of the larynx
  • Vocal cord paresis
  • Laryngitis
  • Posterior hypertrophy

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 7 2009

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 14 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

54 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03382535

Start Date

December 7 2009

End Date

June 14 2016

Last Update

December 26 2017

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