Vocal ergonomics with sports coaches: Co-devised approaches to occupational voice.

Background: Work-system participation and factors are associated with occupational vocal health for vocally reliant workers, such as sports coaches. However, there is limited use of systems approaches and worker collaboration to address occupational voice.

Objective: The current research aimed to cooperatively consider coaches' vocally reliant systems participation, including addressing vocal ergonomic factors that can create barriers for occupational vocal health and voice use.

Action inquiry and vocal ergonomics: A pilot study with sports coaches.

Background: Coaches critically rely on voice for occupational functioning, which has associated risks to vocal health. However, vocal occupational health and safety (OHS) and vocal ergonomics are not typically considered for, by, or with coaches.

Objective: This study piloted a participatory approach to vocal ergonomics, aiming to collaboratively (i) understand coaches' vocally reliant occupational participation, and (ii) consider vocal ergonomic factors.

Further Evidence of the Construct Validity of the Transsexual Voice Questionnaire (TVQ) Using Principal Components Analysis.

Objectives: The Transsexual Voice Questionnaire (TVQ) is a population-specific self-report tool designed to capture the perceptions of male-to-female transsexual women (MtF women) regarding their vocal functioning and the voice-related impact on their everyday life. The aim of this study was to further the psychometric evaluation of the TVQ by examining its construct validity and confirming its reliability.

Study Design: This is a prospective validity and reliability study.

Occupational Vocal Health of Elite Sports Coaches: An Exploratory Pilot Study of Football Coaches.

Objective: To explore the occupational voice use and vocal health of elite football coaches.

Study Design: This pilot study explored coaches' voice use patterns and vocal demands across workplace environments. Each coach's experiences of voice symptoms and voice problems were also investigated.

Voice Problems in New Zealand Teachers: A National Survey.

Objective: This study determined the prevalence and nature of voice problems in New Zealand (NZ) teachers using a national self-report questionnaire.

Study Design: Epidemiological cross-sectional survey.

Methods: Participants were 1879 primary and secondary teachers (72.

Treatment of dysphonia in older people: the role of the speech therapist.

Purpose Of Review: This review addresses speech therapy interventions for older adults experiencing voice impairments. The prevalence, impact, and nature of voice impairments in older people are outlined. Intervention methods and their effectiveness are discussed, with particular focus on behavioral treatments for presbyphonia.

Patterns of emotional expression and responses to health and illness in women with functional voice disorders (MTVD) and a comparison group.

Objectives: To determine whether emotional expression, alexithymia, illness behavior, and coping strategies differed between women with muscle tension voice disorder (MTVD) and those without voice disorder and between women with and without mucosal pathology of the vocal folds, and to explore possible links between psychosocial constructs and clinical features in women with MTVD.

Study Design And Method: A within-subjects design matched 20 women with MTVD and 20 women without voice disorder on validated self-report measures of the psychosocial constructs. The effect of mucosal pathology was assessed using between-groups analyses.

Development and preliminary evaluation of the transsexual voice questionnaire for male-to-female transsexuals.

Objective: This study reports on the preliminary psychometric evaluation of the Transsexual Voice Questionnaire for Male-to-Female Transsexuals (MtF)-TVQ(MtF), a tool designed to measure the perceptions of MtF transsexuals regarding their voice. The TVQ(MtF) evolved from an extensive review of the existing Transgender Self-evaluation Questionnaire (TSEQ).

Study Design: This study was conducted in two phases.

Development of an auditory-perceptual rating instrument for the operatic singing voice.

Although considerable progress has been made in the development of acoustic and physiological measures of operatic singing voice, there is still no widely accepted objective tool for the evaluation of its multidimensional features. Auditory-perceptual evaluation, therefore, remains an important evaluation method for singing pedagogues, voice scientists, and clinicians who work with opera singers. Few investigators, however, have attempted to develop standard auditory-perceptual tools for evaluation of the operatic voice.