Incidence of Voice Disorders among Private School Teachers in Taiwan: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Teachers are more likely to use a loud voice at work than the general working population, but few longitudinal studies have been conducted on their risk of voice disorders. The occurrence of voice disorders in private school teachers was assessed by using the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000 of Taiwan, which contains information on a random sample of 1 million beneficiaries of National Health Insurance. Methods: This study included private school teachers who were under 35 years old and newly employed between 2000 and 2010, and used workers with other occupations as the comparison cohort. Patients with voice disorders were identified using diagnostic codes on insurance claims. Cox proportional hazards regressions were applied to obtain relative risk estimates. Result

SUBMITTER: Chen BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8834254 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature