Características vocais e emocionais de professores e não professores com baixa e alta ansiedade

Abstract

Purpose: Compare vocal symptoms and emotional features in groups of teachers and non-teachers with low and high anxiety. Methods: A total of 93 male and female participants aged between 18 and 59 years participated in the study and were divided into four groups: teachers with low anxiety, teachers with high anxiety, non-teachers with low anxiety, and non-teachers with high anxiety. Vocal parameters were measured by the instruments Vocal Signs and Symptoms Questionnaire, VoiceRelated Quality of Life, Voice Handicap Index; and recorded speech and sustained vowels from the Visual Analog Scale were assessed by three speech-language pathologists. To assess emotional parameters,

Symptoms and Vocal Risk Factors in Individuals with High and Low Anxiety

“…For voice professionals in particular, teachers with high anxiety express a greater number of vocal symptoms than teachers with low anxiety [24]. …”

“…This fact demonstrates that there is a certain imprecision regarding anxiety’s influence on dysphonia because there are no well-defined scientific conclusions regarding this cause-and-effect relationship [10, 11, 24]. Thus, more studies in this field are needed to better understand the relationship between vocal aspects and anxiety and to develop more appropriate speech therapy interventions for patients with dysphonia that value the importance of interdisciplinarity to treat the patient holistically and to consider his/her physical, social, behavioral, and emotional issues.…”

Autoavaliação da comunicação em promotores de justiça em um estado do nordeste, Brasil

“…The literature considers that in some professions, voice and communication suffer interference from environmental and organizational factors such as worker's lack of training on professional communication, further on the influence of biological factors, such as aging, allergies, among others (14) . In addition to these factors, other authors consider that other variables may contribute to the development of vocal deviation, such as the personality characteristics, vocal demands, anxiety, stress (15)(16)(17) , and even signs of depression in some professional categories (18) . Most prosecutors in this study have feelings of discouragement, insecurity, and tension when speaking in public.…”

Referente à réplica à carta ao editor sobre a forma de aplicação e cálculos do instrumento Escala de Sintomas Vocais (ESV)

“…The division between voice professionals and not professional voice users, directly or indirectly based on this concept, also occurred in other published works 2,[9][10][11][12][13] . Still, at the methods, it is clear who were the future professionals of the spoken voice considered in the study, after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria: "The future professions of the participants of the study subjects were pedagogy, physical education, special education and social sciences (journalism and marketing) 1 (p.35)", which was also described similarly in other studies 2,14 .…”

“…It is observed that many studies on spoken voice use these types of analyzes, which enables more effective discussion between the results of work 2,3,6,7,11,12,14,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] . It should be noted also, the work published using the VOISS in dysphonic patients and presented, for example, its Table 1 19 (p.332) with the same kind of data structure and results of Tables 6, 7 and 8 1 (p.39-40), occurring even in Tables 1, 3 In addition to the balance sheet date and approval of the article 1 be earlier (mid-2013) to the validation of VoiSS 15 , on our analyzes about the means and frequency feature (described statistically) of our sample we didn't make inferences to the entire target population of future professional voice.…”