Voice, voice training, voice quality, singing
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental group 1: 20 individuals of Coral UFCSPA without voice problems carry out the exercise with Finnish tube before choir practice once a week for a period of 14 weeks. The exercise will be ca
each sequence will be held for 2 minutes with 1 minute interval between them.
Experimental group 2: 20 individuals of Coral UFCSPA without voice problems carry out the exercise straw phonation before
each sequence will be held for 2 minutes with 1 minute interval between them.
Control group: 10 individuals of Coral UFCSPA without voice problems. Untreated group.
Procedure/surgery
Sponsors
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Age between 18 and 60; score in Voice Sympton Scale (VoiSS) equal to or less than 16; signing of the Informed Consent (IC).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Voice disorders diagnosed by otolaryngologist physician; smokers; presence below 75% in the meetings.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Improved singing voice quality standard demonstrated by the perceptual analysis of voice with CAPE- V, in which there is a decrease in score value pre and post intervention. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Improvement of acoustic parameters (mean fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, GNE), demonstrated by VoxMetria software. Improved profile vocal range, shown by Vocalgrama software. Improvement of maximum phonation time, demonstrated by measuring the maximum times of sustaining vowels and phonemes /s/ and /z/. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactFernanda;Mauriceia Kavaliunas;Cassol
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre;Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Outcome results
None listed