Epidemiology Of Voice Disorders Among Government School Teachers - An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study from Kancheepuram District
| Autor: | Gowthaman Sankar, Vijayakrishnan Ganesan, Raja Vel Shantharam, Kaveri Palanisamy, Indraja Katam |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | National Journal of Community Medicine, Vol 13, Iss 12 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0976-3325 2229-6816 |
| DOI: | 10.55489/njcm.131220222574 |
| Popis: | Background: Voice disorders cause undesirable effects on school teachers such as reducing their quality of life, decrease in work performance affecting the quality of education, job absenteeism, and reduced social activities as well. Methodology: Voice disorder among teachers was assessed through the “Voice handicap Index”, which was developed by Jacobson et al in 1997 to self-assess the severity of voice disorder in dysphonia patients Results: The overall prevalence of voice disorder among government school teachers was found to be 46.5% with a 95% confidence interval from 41.5% to 51.5%. Using Backward Wald, the binary logistic regression analysis showed that female teachers (AOR 1.6, p |
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