Speech Therapy Graduate Program, Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB, João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Human Communication Disorders Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
J Voice. 2021 Jan;35(1):158.e1-158.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.07.018. Epub 2019 Aug 12.
Evaluating the relationship among teachers' voice symptoms, perceived voice control, and common mental disorders (CMDs) might contribute to the understanding of the relationship between vocal wear and the teacher well-being. The understanding of this relationship may also help in taking more informed clinical decisions in voice rehabilitation when considering possible perceived voice control difficulties and the need to develop voice self-control strategies.
The aim of this study was to determine the voice symptoms, perceived voice control, and CMDs in public elementary and secondary school teachers, and to analyze the relationships among these variables.
The study included 85 public elementary and secondary school teachers of both genders. Four instruments were used to measure the variables: an identification and characterization questionnaire, the Voice Symptom Scale, the Present Perceived Control of Voice scale, and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire.
A significant correlation between voice symptoms and CMDs was found, along with correlations between the emotional domain of the Voice Symptom Scale and teachers' ages and years of teaching. A negative correlation between CMDs and voice self-control was also observed.
Teachers with voice symptoms had more CMD symptoms, and as the number of mental disorder symptoms increased, voice self-control decreased.
评估教师的声音症状、感知的声音控制与常见精神障碍（CMD）之间的关系，可能有助于理解声带磨损与教师健康之间的关系。了解这种关系还可以帮助在考虑可能存在的感知声音控制困难和需要制定声音自控策略时，在进行嗓音康复时做出更明智的临床决策。
本研究旨在确定公立中小学教师的声音症状、感知的声音控制和常见精神障碍，并分析这些变量之间的关系。
该研究纳入了 85 名公立中小学的男女教师。使用了四种工具来测量变量：识别和特征描述问卷、嗓音症状量表、当前感知嗓音控制量表和自我报告问卷。
发现声音症状与 CMD 之间存在显著相关性，嗓音症状量表的情绪域与教师的年龄和教龄之间也存在相关性。还观察到 CMD 与声音自控之间呈负相关。
有声音症状的教师有更多的 CMD 症状，随着精神障碍症状数量的增加，声音自控能力下降。
