Prevention of occupational dysphonia in scientific university personnel: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim of the study was to identify occupational and individual factors that influence the occurrence of voice problems in university staff and to investigate whether there is a link between voice problems and physical, psychological or functional changes?

Subject and methods

The voices of university teachers are exposed to increased stress. As members of the group of professional speakers, they have an increased prevalence of developing a voice disorder, so-called dysphonia. In the worst case, chronic, occupational dysphonia can occur. In an empirical-quantitative study in form of a cross-sectional study in Germany, an online questionnaire was used to determine whether university teaching staff is more frequently affected by voice problems than their colleagues in the

SUBMITTER: Lucking C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9836919 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature