Abstract
Teachers are at a nigner nskjor occupation-related voice disorders than the general population. The aim of this work is the investigations on the relationships between vocal doses and clinical status, acoustical conditions (noise and reverberation) in the classrooms and subjective evaluations of vocal effort and fatigue. At clinical evaluation 41% of the teachers showed no sign of vocal disease. Students talking in the classroom is the most annoying, noise source in classrooms. The consequence of the poor acoustics in all the schools was the decrease in students question perception. The main cause of a vocal pathology was time dose.
| Translated title of the contribution | Effect of noise and reverbreation on vocal effort and fatigue of primary school teachers |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Pages (from-to) | 122-125 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | SUPPL. 3 |
| State | Published - Jul 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Noise
- Primary school teachers
- Vocal effort
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health