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- Title
Work-Related Determinants of Voice Complaints Among School Workers: An Eleven-Month Follow-Up Study.
- Authors
Cutiva, Lady Catherine Cantor; Burdorf, Alex
- Abstract
Purpose: We determined the natural course of voice complaints among school workers and established the risk factors associated with incidence and chronic voice complaints. Method: We conducted a longitudinal study with an 11-month follow-up among 682 school workers. Participants filled out a questionnaire on individual and work-related conditions and the nature and severity of voice complaints. All participants who provided baseline data were contacted in the 11-month follow-up, if they were still working in the school. Short-term environmental measurements of physical workrelated factors were conducted during visits at the workplaces. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine associations between work-related factors and voice complaints. Results: We found a high occurrence of chronic voice complaints, a low recovery of 22%, and an annual incidence of 44%. A self-reported high noise level at the workplace was associated with the incidence of voice complaints (odds ratio = 2.45). Self-reported poor acoustics in the classroom was associated with chronic voice complaints (odds ratio = 1.76). Conclusions: This unique longitudinal study among school workers presented some indications that self-reported high noise levels may contribute to the incidence of voice complaints, whereas self-reported poor acoustic conditions may be an important associated factor of chronic voice complaints.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; VOICE disorders; HEALTH of school employees; NOISE (Work environment); CLASSROOMS; TEACHER health; SELF-evaluation; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; LONGITUDINAL method; CONFIDENCE intervals; CONVALESCENCE; HIGH schools; MULTIVARIATE analysis; NOISE; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SCHOOL environment; SOUND; STATISTICS; SURVEYS; PSYCHOLOGY of teachers; MATHEMATICAL variables; HUMAN voice; WORK environment; MULTIPLE regression analysis; PRE-tests &; post-tests; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; PSYCHOLOGY; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 4, p590
- ISSN
1058-0360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2016_AJSLP-14-0191